Table 2.
Population profiles for varying levels of ITN coverage with multiple coverage schemes
| ITN coverage |
Partial coverage scheme |
Complete coverage scheme |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of bed net users | Number of non-users | Population-level coverage (%) | Number of bed net users | Number of non-users | Population-level coverage (%) | |
| 0.4 |
40 |
145 |
21.62 |
76 |
109 |
41.08 |
| 0.6 |
60 |
125 |
32.43 |
110 |
75 |
59.46 |
| 0.8 |
80 |
105 |
43.24 |
153 |
32 |
82.70 |
| 1.0 | 100 | 85 | 54.05 | 185 | 0 | 100 |
The table shows the differences in household-level coverage and population-level coverage, as well as the variation in number of bed net users and non-users, for varying levels of ITN coverage with multiple coverage schemes (see Methods and Figure 3). To match GN-ITN [11], the human population is set as 185. In the partial scheme, only two persons are protected by a bed net in a ITN-covered house. On the other hand, in the complete scheme, all persons in the house are protected by bed nets in a ITN-covered house. For example, with 60% ITN coverage, in the partial scheme, 60 persons are protected by bed nets, yielding a population-level coverage of 32.43% (60 / 185 × 100); with the same ITN coverage, in the complete scheme, 110 persons are protected by bed nets, yielding a population-level coverage of 59.46% (110 / 185 × 100).