Last Updated: 19/12/2024
Improving the Effectiveness of Long-lasting Insecticide-treated Net (LLIN) Campaigns in Ghana
Objectives
To strengthen the use of LLINs through the Community-Based Health Planning and Service Programme (CHPS).
Specific Objectives:
- Assess the LLINs campaign implementation processes at the community level to identify stages involved in the delivery of LLINs by end of August, 2021.
- Identify potential enablers and barriers within the Community-based Health Panning and Services Programme (CHPS) to determine institutional structures that can be leveraged/addressed to support the implementation of continuous mass LLIN distribution campaigns to improve use of LLINs by end of August, 2021.
- Prioritize contextual factors and implementation processes for effective campaign transitioning to increase household use of LLINs through stakeholder engagement, by end of September, 2021.
- Co-create interventions (i.e., capacity building for community health officers, community mobilization) to strengthen the mass LLIN distribution campaign, by the end of October 2021, to increase use of LLINs within households.
- Assess the acceptability and appropriateness of co-created campaign interventions (i.e. capacity building for community health officers, community mobilization) through the conduct of community surveys and interviews by end of February, 2022.
- Assess the feasibility of transitioning the co-created interventions (i.e. capacity building for CHOs, community mobilization) into primary healthcare delivery through the conduct of key informant interviews among health care workers by end of May 2022.
Mass long-lasting insecticide net (LLIN) distribution campaigns apply comprehensive stakeholder engagement approaches; however, this approach has not systematically been transitioned into the primary healthcare structures within Ghana Health Services (Community-based Health Planning and Services, CHPS). The aim of this study was to co-create a stakeholder and community-based intervention to transition the mass LLIN distribution campaigns within the CHPS programme in Ghana.
A concurrent triangulation mixed methods approach across six districts in the Eastern and Volta regions, Ghana, was used. A desk review, baseline and end-line surveys (n=800), key informant interviews (KII, n=10), 6 community health officers focus group discussions (FGD, n=37), 6 household heads focus group discussions (FGD, n=60), 8 caregivers of children under 5 focus group discussions (FGD, n= 69), and 6 community stakeholders participatory workshops (16-17 participants per workshop) were used to collect data.
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