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Title: Use of Insecticides for Malaria Control & the Need for Reversion of Resistance (Commentary) (Report)
Author : Rajendra Maharaj
Release Date : January 01, 2010
Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,Health, Mind & Body,Health & Fitness,
Pages : * pages
Size : 71 KB

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Despite its long association with human evolution, malaria still remains as one of the most important disease of public health importance. In 2008, almost 300 million cases and 863,000 deaths occurred as a result of malaria (1). Malaria ironically is an easily treatable disease if the patient has access to prompt diagnosis and appropriate treatment. Unfortunately in Africa where the bulk of the diseases and deaths occur, lack of access to health care facilities is the main driver of the disease. Therefore, in order to circumvent the morbidity and mortality experienced by the population at risk of contracting the disease, vector control interventions have been put in place in most countries to limit vector-host interactions resulting in a decrease in the disease burden. The mainstay of malaria control programmes are insecticides either used in indoor residual spray (IRS) programmes or as bonded to the fibres of long-lasting insecticide treated nets. Over the past century, many attempts have been made in controlling the disease, which culminated in the eradication campaigns of the early 1950s which saw malaria disappear from many parts of the world especially Europe and North America (2). In the remainder of the malaria affected world, the main attempt in controlling the disease was the use of chemicals against the larval and adult stages. While the extensive use of chemicals, mainly in the form of indoor residual spraying, saw the elimination of the disease from countries such as Mauritius and Morocco, it has also contributed to the rapid decline of disease transmission in countries such as South Africa and Swaziland (3). With malaria transmission declining in some parts of the world such as Zanzibar, Solomon's Islands and Vanuatu, there is a renewed thrust to once again eliminate malaria from parts of the world where the transmission rate is 0.1 per 1000 incidence (4).