Abstract
A cross sectional study designed to assess the difference in level of Awareness, Access and Use of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) from consenting pregnant women aged between 15 to 40 years attending routine ante-natal clinic sessions at Kaduna State University (Barau Dikko) Teaching Hospital, General Hospital Kawo, Primary Health Care Badarawa, Primary Health Care Angwan Romi and General Hospital Sabon Tasha. A total of 360 questionnaires were distributed, but only 308 returned completed. Also, mosquito samples were collected in 30 randomly selected households of the consenting pregnant women that were within three kilometer radius range of the antenatal clinic for 12 weeks’ period. A one-way ANOVA was conducted using SPSS statistical package version 22. The result revealed that there was no significant difference (P> 0.05) in level of Awareness (92.53%), Access (75.32%) and Use (67.86%) of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) among the pregnant women attending the various ante-natal hospitals/primary health care facilities. A total of 344 larvae samples were encountered and identified as Culex species 259(75.29%) and Aedes species 85(24.71%). Awareness, Access and Use of LLINs is relatively similar; while the mosquito species are vectors of Filariasis, Yellow fever, Dengue fever and can be prevented by the use of LLINs.
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 Key word: Kaduna Metropolis, LLINs Awareness, Access and Use, Mosquito Preventive
Highlights
Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) are effective in the prevention of malaria, (WHO, 2005)
The ownership and utilization of LLINs vary among individuals and communities; the need to ascertain the level of awareness, ownership, maintenance and utilization of LLINs among susceptible population of pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in selected Primary Health Care Units
The result from the current study shows an improvement over the 82.6% awareness level reported in the study of LLINs among pregnant women in 18 Nigerian states; Ezire et al, (2015)
Summary
Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) are effective in the prevention of malaria, (WHO, 2005). About 3.2 billion people were at risk of the disease in 97 countries, territories and areas in 2018, and an estimated 228 million cases occurred. The disease remains endemic in all six WHO regions and the burden is heaviest in the African region, where an estimated 90% of all malaria deaths occur. Millions of people remain without access to malaria prevention and treatment, and most cases and deaths go unregistered and unreported. Reports indicates that 578 million Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Nets (ITNs) called Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) were distributed between 2016 and 2018 in the African region, with 10% of these nets in ante-natal care facilities, (WHO,2019)
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