Is `` It about how the net looks '' : a qualitative study of perceptions and practices related to mosquito net care and repair in two districts in eastern Uganda?
Respondents considered both aesthetics and malaria protection important when deciding whether, when, and how to care for and repair nets. BCC should continue to emphasize the importance of maintaining net integrity for malaria prevention purposes as well as for maintaining aesthetic appeal. Additional research is needed, particularly surrounding washing, drying, daily storage routines, and gender roles in care and repair, in order to understand the complexity of these behaviours, and refine existing or develop new behaviour change communication (BCC) messages for net care and repair.
Our study showed that DST combined with RPM prolonged cardiac allograft survival even if we withdrew immunosuppressants after transplantation. This result may be associated with inhibition of T-cell proliferation. We also demonstrated that RPM expanded CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells and increased splenocyte apoptosis.