Technical Information

This manual has been created by the WHO to enhance existing knowledge and skills, and to assist malaria programme managers, entomologists and vector control and public health officers to design, implement and sustain high quality IRS programs.

The Government of Tanzania introduced indoor residual spraying (IRS) in Muleba district in north-western Tanzania after frequent malaria epidemics.

A mosquito's tiny, low-weight body is the key to its ability to survive flying in the rain, according to scientists.

According to Reuter's reports, European scientists have created the world's first genetically modified malaria mosquito that could one day help to rid the world of the disease that kills an estimated 2.7 million people each year.

The fight against malaria could receive a major boost if the use of a medicinal plant, Artemisia annua, is promoted countrywide.

A research scientist from the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI) has sparked off a furious debate by calling for the immediate revision of the insecticide-treated bed-nets (ITNs) as a malaria control strategy for Africa.

NEW YORK - Polio and tuberculosis are back. AIDS and malaria continue to infect and kill, and new ailments such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the human variant of mad cow disease keep appearing.

In an age of multi-million-dollar research grants, a team of researchers at the National University of Singapore has come up with a novel way of counting malaria-infected cells - at a mere cost of $5.

MINISTRY of Health is planning to spray DDT inside houses to control malaria. Health minister Brig. Jim Muhwezi, this week revealed that Cabinet had already approved the plan.

Policy makers need to compare the real risks that people face from malaria with the often uncertain and hypothetical risks they may face from using DDT to protect themselves from infection.

Residual insecticides applications continue to play a pivotal role in vector-borne disease control programs around the globe.

Residual sprays continue to play a pivotal role in the control of vector-borne diseases around the globe.

When Othmar Zeidler first synthesized dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane in the nineteenth century with apparently no particular purpose in mind, he could not have foreseen the controversy that would follow his invention two Centuries later.

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Malaria is a threat to more than 40% of the world’s population. Of the more than 300 million acute annual cases, between 1.1 and 2.7 million people die each year.

WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced that, barely six months after the unveiling of the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), the first major activities under the program began this week in Angola and will start next week in Tanzania.

The malaria campaign in Gacaca Sector was last year affected by residents' involvement in the sale of the mosquito nets and also using them for fishing activities.