The ITN quantification website presents the number of ITNs required to achieve and maintain targeted levels of ITN access with different combinations of distribution channels, country-specific estimates of ITN longevity, and targets for population-level ITN access. The tools on the website can support national malaria programmes as they explore and plan ITN channel mixes that includes continuous distribution. Further AMP guidance on ITN channel selection is available here.
The website provides a user-friendly way to look up recommended ITN population quantifiers for school-based and community-based continuous distribution. These quantifiers are used during macroplanning to calculate the number of ITNs required for distribution through these channels and can be applied nationally or sub-nationally.
The tools on the website replace NetCALC and NetCALC Lite, previously used to quantify ITN need. has shown that NetCALC overestimates ITN access for a given number of nets-per-capita. since NetCALC was developed in 2009, we now have which can be used to better quantify ITN needs for a given country.
This work is supported by the Alliance for Malaria Prevention with funding from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.