KO Palu NightWatch (Cameroon)
Also: KO Palu · Knock Out Malaria
“KO Palu”
National communications campaign launched in Cameroon in July 2011 alongside free distribution of over 8 million bed nets. Malaria No More adapted its NightWatch programme (evening reminders to sleep under a net) inside the national 'KO Palu' brand.
- Years
- 2011–now
- Country
- Cameroon
- Topic
- Malaria
- Asks people to
- Start
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- EventsRadioTV
- Audience
- AdultsParents
Evidence
Quasi-experimentalPositive
National surveys before (2011) and after (2012) with propensity score matching: among households with a net, exposure raised last-night net use by 6.6 points in adults (65.7% vs 59.1%) and 12.0 points in children under five (79.6% vs 67.6%); about 298,000 adults and 221,000 children estimated to have slept under a net because of it, at under $0.16 per adult reached (Bowen 2013).
Sponsor (who paid)
- Malaria No More (NightWatch) NGO, funder and creator
- Cameroon national malaria programme and health partners Foreign government, national campaign owner
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Sources
- Bowen HL. Impact of a mass media campaign on bed net use in Cameroon. Malar J 2013;12:36 evaluation · 2013 · DOI 10.1186/1475-2875-12-36 · PMID 23351674
Research notes
Created 2026-10-22 by OpenAlex literature mining (openalex-deep pass); evidence level, outcome and findings are paraphrased from the evaluation abstracts, full texts not read. No credits: no page naming an agency was checked. Channel list is a best guess (NightWatch used broadcast reminders and events); confirm in the paper.
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