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Purpose: To facilitate counseling activities on key COVida intervention areas, including child development, during home visits.Used by community-based organization activists supported by COVida.

By 2014, concerns about pyrethroid resistance in the Ségou Region of Mali had prompted a shift in indoor residual spraying (IRS) products. Ségou was also expanding a program to provide seasonal malaria chemoprevention to children. This presented an opportunity to analyze the impact of both interventions using passive surveillance data.

The adoption of new products for indoor residual spraying (IRS) is challenged by evidence gaps regarding their impact and cost-effectiveness. To provide evidence to address this gap, we present a retrospective, observational analysis of the epidemiological and entomological impact of IRS with different insecticides using routine indicators of malaria transmission.

Changes in ingredients have contributed to operational shifts in indoor residual spraying (IRS) in Ghana. These changes allowed for observational study to better describe the impact of IRS with a third generation IRS product with a focus on the impact of shifting ingredients and introducing IRS into previously unsprayed districts.

To supplement entomological analyses of a switch in indoor residual spraying (IRS) ingredients in Ghana, we conducted a preliminary, retrospective, observational analysis of the epidemiological impact of IRS. Results are triangulated with previous analyses to better understand the impact of IRS with next-generation products in a region with insecticide resistance.