Combatting Resistance: New Approaches to Vector Control
The PMI AIRS Project hosted a symposium at the 64th Annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Conference in Philadelphia, October 25-29, 2015, on Combatting Resistance: New Approaches to Vector Control. The symposium included presentations by PMI AIRS Technical Director Dereje Dengela; CDC Resident Advisor for President’s Malaria Initiative, Ghana, Dr. Philip Ricks; Dr. James W. Austin of BASF; and Director of the JHU/CCP Malaria Vector Control Project Dr. Matthew Lynch. Their presentations can be found here:
The Importance of Insecticide Resistance Monitoring to Maintain IRS Program Effectiveness
Application of New Approaches to Measuring Intensity of Insecticide Resistance
Chlorfenapyr_An important new tool for combatting insecticide resistance
Next-Generation LLINs_Programmatic Implications
The PMI AIRS Project also presented five posters at the conference:
Anopheles Gambiae s.l. Resistance to Pyrethroids, DDT and Malathion…
Anopheles Species Diversity, Behavior and Sporozoite Rates in Six States in Nigeria
The Effect on Malaria Burden after a change in insecticide for IRS in Zimbabwe