Christian Lengeler

TL;DR: ITNs are highly effective in reducing childhood mortality and morbidity from malaria, but universal deployment will require major financial, technical, and operational inputs.

TL;DR: English language bias may be introduced in reviews and meta-analyses if they include only trials reported in English if authors are more likely to report trials with statistically significant results in English than in German.

TL;DR: The impact of IRS alone, and to compare the relative impacts of IRS and ITNs, on key malariological parameters is quantified to help compare IRS with other vector control interventions.

TL;DR: The objective of this review was to investigate the malarial situation before and after the introduction of indoor residual insecticide spraying in South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique using historical malarial data and related information collected from National Malaria Control Programmes, national archives and libraries, as well as academic institutions in the respective countries.

TL;DR: Covering entire populations will be required to accomplish large reductions of the malaria burden in Africa, and coverage of vulnerable groups should still be prioritized, but the equitable and communal benefits of wide-scale ITN use by older children and adults should be explicitly promoted and evaluated by national malaria control programmes.