Course: The Resistant Mosquito: Staying Ahead of the Game in the Fight against Malaria

Resistance to different classes of insecticides used in public health has been widely reported throughout Tanzania. Resistance to pyrethroid and carbamate insecticides has been detected throughout the country, prompting fears …

It is essential that insecticide resistance information from around the world is collated, shared and used in order to make informed, evidence-based decisions on vector control. Mapping tools and maps …

Malaria is a preventable disease. As Keziah L. Malm and Fredros Okumu welcome you to this course, they summarise the history of the struggle against malaria with its victories and …

While bioassays are useful to monitor the susceptibility of mosquitoes to insecticides, such behavioural assays may miss the presence of insecticide resistance alleles in the mosquito population at low frequencies, …

In this video, Prisca Kweyamba will introduce you to Tanzania’s insecticide-based interventions to control malaria. Explore how the National Malaria Control Programme carries out regular mosquito surveillance. The Ifakara Health …

Ministries of Health, Malaria Control Programmes and aid agencies aren’t really buying insecticide-treated bed nets, or doses of insecticide for IRS. What they are actually investing in is fewer mosquitoes, …

In the 1990s, as momentum grew again for a concerted effort against malaria, the need for sustainable approaches to vector control became more important. Sustainability requires that the potential impact …

In this video, Christen Fornadel gives examples of how insecticide resistance impacts malaria vector control. Which strategies can help to mitigate the effects of this? Christen Fornadel describes different case …

The development of resistance against commonly used insecticides is a major threat to our ability to control the mosquito vectors of disease. Only few insecticide mode of action classes are …

Insecticide resistance is an evolutionary problem at its core. Much research has gone into understanding the molecular mechanisms and their genetic basis, which are the proximate, or immediate, causes of …

The Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria. What are the resistance mechanisms that evolved in these malaria vectors? How do these mechanisms help them avoid being killed by insecticides used in vector …

In this video, David McGuire and Andrew Saibu explain the value of insecticide-based vector control and Insecticide Resistance Management. Insecticide-based vector control has a huge impact on public health, and …

The Global Malaria Programme (GMP) of the World Health Organization (WHO) put in place a framework for global malaria control and elimination efforts known as the Global Technical Strategy (GTS). …

In Week 1, we learnt that some vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, are transmitted by mosquitoes. One of the most effective ways to prevent transmission, and hence the disease, is …

The fictional village “Nsuhyia”, located in sub-Saharan Africa, illustrates the fight against malaria. In this video, Keziah L. Malm and Fredros Okumu visit Nsuhyia again to summarise what you explored …