Award Winning Partner Healthy Child Uganda Saves Lives with Buy-A-Net: Education Critical to Success
Buy-A-Net partnership with Healthy Child Uganda (www.healthychilduganda.org/) is saving lives through education, community empowerment, and bed nets. Buy-A-Net provided 13,000 bed nets to the project in Southwestern Uganda. “We have seen some very preliminary results for our recent follow up survey data analysis and our most significant indicator change was with bed nets. For households where a bed net was seen hanging and the youngest child under 2 was reported to be the one who slept under the net the previous night the results were 37.3% (up from 1.4% in 2006). This also increased in our control areas (indicating other distribution programs or net purchases) but not as significantly (25.6%).
40% of homes (in both control and intervention areas combined) had bed nets hanging (observed) versus 14% in 2006.
About 10% with a net hanging in 2006 reported that the youngest child slept under the net in 2006, but this increased to about 85% of homes with a net hanging in 2009; education about who should sleep under the net has had great impact!” reported Project Coordinator Erin Kiley and Canadian Director, Jenn Brenner. For most recent exec summary, go to www.healthychilduganda.org/assets/HCU-CORPs-Modelexecsummary2010.pdf.
