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Bandafassi, Senegal

LLINs

What is a Long-Lasting Insecticidal Net (LLIN)?

An LLIN is a mosquito net impregnated with insecticide.

The insecticide is cleverly bound within the fibres that make up the netting and is 'slow released' over a 4-5 year period. Hence 'long lasting'.

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1,000 LLINs

Jun-Jul 07
Distributed by
NetLife Africa

Status
Distribution complete

Distribution status

The bednet distribution programmes go through a number of different states from being manufactured to being installed over a head/bed:

Being manufactured
Ready at factory
En-route to country
Arrived in country
En-route to zone
Being distributed
Distribution complete

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listed below add up (or will add up) exactly to the cost of the distribution. More...

	Sponsor/Donor	Location		Country	Message	Amount
	Numerous supporters	St Louis, MO		USA	Thanks all! We are off to Senegal to distribute...	US$4,400.00
	Interest gap (in order to match the exact cost of the nets)					US$ 0.00

Photos and Videos

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Andrew Sherman (left) and Jesse Matthews (right) with 1,100 mosquito nets, ready to transport from one side of Senegal to the other...

We bargained hard for this minibus, which brought our 1,100 nets to the southeast area of Senegal...

Nurse Mactar Mansaly (left) stands with his wife in front of his home. Mansaly is our main counterpart and source of information about the area...

12 year-old Saliou Diallo, our invaluable 'scout', sits beneath a mosquito net...

Scouting out villages in need of mosquito nets...	The health post nurse draws a drop of blood to use in one of the new rapid malaria tests...	A few drops of reagent draws the blood sample across the card to determine whether the patient has malaria...	This is a positive test for plasmodium falciparum malaria...	Andrew speaks in Pulaar, the local language, to teach about malaria prevention and the importance of mosquito nets...
A local theatre company performs a play about a man, his pregnant wife and the problems of malaria...	Handing out the nets...	A child of Afia Magasin village with her new mosquito net...	Andrew and Jesse with some of the local health care personnel of Afia Pont...	A lady in Afia Pont receives a net...
Dancing and singing after a distribution in Afia Pont...	Demonstrating our mode of transporting nets to the villages...	Discussing malaria in the local Pulaar language...	Fula Diallo, the local health care expert...	The women of Boundoucoundi show off their new mosquito nets...
Jesse, the mosquito, entertains a crowd of women in Thiarmalel...	Some of the village women of Thiarmalel...	Two women with a new net...	Two women of Mamakono Tanda with their new mosquito nets...	Two children of Mamakono Tanda hold their new nets...
Two young women of Mamakono Tanda and a new net...	Two happy new net owners...	Some of the Dindefelo Tanda population sit beneath a hut with their new nets...	A woman of the Dindefelo Tanda population sits beneath a hut with her new mosquito net...	Two women from the village of Togue use their new mosquito nets to provide a little shade...
Happy men. 1,000 nets with new owners.

Photoset editor: Rob M

Pre-distribution information

The nets will be distributed in 15-20 villages around Bandafassi in the Kedougou health district. Recipients will be principally pregnant women and mothers with children under 5.

This is a high risk malaria area. All the villages lack health care resources and access to curative measures for malaria is very difficult meaning prevention of malaria is so important here.

Identifying the number of nets for each village is done in collaboration with the long-time health post nurse in Bandafassi. The nets will be distributed by Andrew Sherman and Jesse Matthews using a van and two bikes. Andrew was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the area and has local connections with village chiefs, health post nurses and local politicians.

Documentation (pdf)

Distribution Proposal (32 kb)

Post-distribution information

The distribution was completed successfully as planned.

Documentation (pdf)

Immediate Report (2,535 kb)

Follow-up surveys

These take place 6, 18, 30 and 42 months post-distribution. A survey of 50 households provides sample information on what proportion of nets continue to be used, if they are used correctly and the state of the nets.

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