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

In 2004, AngloGold Ashanti, a global gold mining company, identified malaria as the biggest public health threat to its operations in Ghana. It then launched a comprehensive malaria control programme …

Most organisms evolve resistance to the agents used to try and control them. The malaria parasite evolves resistance to drugs, bacteria to antibiotics, weeds to herbicide, and so on. Mosquitoes …

What is the rationale of Insecticide Resistance Management in vectors? In this video, Armel Djenontin delves into this topic. He explains the different approaches and illustrates them with historical success …

In the fictional village of Nsuhyia, the vector control interventions seem to have become less effective. How can this be proactively addressed? In this video, Keziah and Fredros explain the …

Congratulations on reaching the end of this course’s second week! In the first week, we explored the mosquitoes that vector malaria and other vector-borne diseases between people. We discovered that …