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Partial indoor residual spraying (IRS) is an effective, feasible, sustainable, and cost-saving approach that could expand IRS implementation.

Abt Global generates evidence to help clients address tough challenges—in education, housing, child welfare, employment, and health. Our researchers implement effective and efficient processes to collect and analyze vast amounts of data, producing frequently cited studies. Does a program reduce food insecurity and improve nutrition? Does a vaccine wane in effectiveness against a new virus variant? Our global interdisciplinary teams—research methodologists, statisticians, ethnographers, economists, epidemiologists, data scientists, and implementation research scientists— help policymakers answer such questions. They assess whether programs work to improve people’s lives, and if not, how to best resolve them.

This blog asks how we can promote attendance in Head Start, which expands access to early care and education for children from low-income households.

Tests in Cote d’Ivoire show vector susceptibility to ITNs treated with chlorfenapyr to be much higher than for pyrethroids alone or with piperonyl butoxide.