IRS Campaign¶

IRS is a vector control intervention that consists in the application of a long-lasting, residual insecticide to potential vector resting surfaces (e.g. internal walls, eaves and ceilings of all houses, structures or domestic animal shelters). When vectors come to rest onto the sprayed surfaces, they absorb a lethal dose of insecticide and die. Thus the mosquitoes are impeded from biting and transmitting the malaria parasite to people in the vicinity. IRS can be implemented through campaigns where spray teams visit each household of the target area and spray all eligible structures in the household, provided they are granted permission by household owners.

Event configuration¶

Sections	Description
Basic info	Campaign’s start date
Intervention timing	Campaign’s end date and info on the people in the sprayed area
Insecticide and formulation sprayed	Type, concentration and formulation of the insecticide used during teh campaign
IRS campaign results	Final number of houses sprayed and info on the effective population inhabiting the area
Status	Tick box to complete the event registration
Comment	Writing box to allow any kind of reporting of additional accompanying notes

Event details¶

New event registration¶

The event requires the reporting institution and the organization unit where the activity was carried out. Being a campaign taking place at the lowest level of reporting, the community itself and its households, the implementation needs to choose carefully the level of reporting in order to be able to analyze and identify correctly the campaign, while being able to integrate the results in the national routine HMIS.

Basic Info¶

Intervention Timing¶

The section provides info on the campaign’s start date as well as the number of men and women in the targeted area,

Insecticide and formulation sprayed¶

The section reports the product, its active ingredient, its concentration, and the qiaontity of used formulation during the campaign.

IRS Campaign Results¶

The campaign's final numbers are to be reported in the results section.

Status and Comments¶

Analytics¶

Visualizations¶

The package comes with a predefined VC-IRS-CR (Campaign Results) dashboard. The table below provides the naming and info about the visualizations.

Item name	Title	Type
IRS-CR-001 People protected	Proportion of protected people (%)	Map
IRS-CR-002 Coverage	IRS Campaign Coverage (structures and people)	Scatterplot
IRS-CR-003 Summary	Summary of the campaigns	Pivot table

Depending on the local availability of insecticides, it is suggested to have also a map to observe the geographical distribution of the sprayed products.

Resources¶

WHO, (2014). Indoor residual spraying: an operational manual for IRS for malaria transmission, control and elimination.