World malaria report 2023
<p>India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO).</p>
Vector Control
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Community-centred approach for the control of Aedes spp. in a peri-urban zone in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands using temephos
Chikungunya fever struck the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in July 2006. The authors did a prospective observational feasibility study in one peri-urban locality (Brookshabad) to assess the Aedes spp. infestation and subsequently test the efficacy of a community-based approach to control Aedes aegypti.
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Modelling malaria incidence with environmental dependency in a locality of Sudanese savannah area, Mali
The risk of Plasmodium falciparum infection is variable over space and time and this variability is related to environmental variability. Environmental factors affect the biological cycle of both vector and parasite. Despite this strong relationship, environmental effects have rarely been included in malaria transmission models.
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Tripura government to use ACT to combat Malaria
Agartala, April 5: Tripura government has started the extensive use of Artesunate Combination Therapy (ACT), a second generation drug against malaria in Tripura while setting a target to distribute six lakh mosquito-nets before the next monsoon, besides spraying DDT in sensitive locations of the state at least for the next 150 days.
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Integrated disease vector control of malaria: A success story based in Assam, Northeastern India
Integrated Disease Vector Control (IDVC) project had its beginning in Kheda district of Gujarat way back in 1983. With the demonstrated success of malaria control using environmental approaches in select villages of Nadiad Taluka, the project jointly funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
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Whats plan B?
Mosquitoes are getting better at evading pest control for long mosquitoes have been resisting pest control. They are only getting better at it. From 1977 to 1997, India spent more than a quarter of its health budget on malaria control. Yet it remains a formidable public health challenge in the country. A Nigeria-based study by scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Microbial larvicide application by a large-scale, community-based program reduces malaria infection prevalence
Malaria control in Africa is most tractable in urban settlements yet most research has focused on rural settings. Elimination of malaria transmission from urban areas may require larval control strategies that complement adult mosquito control using insecticide-treated nets or houses, particularly where vectors feed outdoors.
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Potential of biological control of insects by chemosterlisation
Decades ago, in the wake of increasing chemical pesticide-related deaths, researchers sought to reinvent commercially viable alternatives to conventional pesticides. By the 1970s, optimism was high that future pest control schemes would increasingly incorporate novel methods including the use of biocontrol agents.
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Entomologists are becoming rare species in India
MADURAI: Leading scientists and public health officials have called for
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Priority to significantly reduce mortality rates under NRHM
National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) proposes to bring down child and mother mortality rates. Child mortality rate stands at 44 per thousand (within one year) and 40 per thousand (within one month) while mother mortality rules at 228 per one lakh in the district. The NRHM plans to bring down these rates significantly.
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World malaria report 2008
This report provides an overview of the global distribution of malaria cases and deaths and documents how control strategies recommended by WHO have been adopted and implemented in endemic countries.