Study area and trial design
malaria
MALARIA
The study was carried out in the Gbêkê region in central Côte d’Ivoire. This region is characterized by wet savannah with a single annual rainy season (April to November) followed by a long dry season (December to March). There was an average annual rainfall of 1223 mm and an average temperature of 26.3  C during the study period. It is highly malaria endemic area with year-round transmission, and malaria cases are almost entirely attributable to The eave tube study design was a two-armed, cluster-randomized controlled trial with 20 villages (clusters) per arm. Villages in the control arm received universal coverage of LLINs, while the villages in the intervention arm received universal coverage of LLINs plus the screening plus eave tube (SET) intervention free of charge [