Uncategorized Malaria Blog Administrator | 07 May 2007 08:24 am
VOICES for a Malaria-Free Future
VOICES for a Malaria-Free Future is designed to educate policymakers about effective programs and strategies for malaria control by highlighting highlights successful anti-malaria efforts and evidence-based results. In its first phase VOICES included advocacy projects in four developing countries — Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Mozambique — that promote progress made against malaria while also breaking down policy barriers that hamper effective prevention and control. VOICES has added Tanzania and Uganda and is a major partner in the United Against Malaria Campaign linked to the 2010 World Cup.
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on 12 Oct 2007 at 5:11 pm 1.Tressa Green said …
Where do you buy your nets? Tressa
Some examples for Long Lasting Insecticide-treated Nets include
Vestergaard
http://www.vestergaard-frandsen.com/site/index.php?sbw=l&sid=13a21f1f6f2db506c6a7b66bb8cd08c1&slg=en
Sumitomo Chemical (Olyset Nets)
http://www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp/english/gnews/news_pdf/20060327_1.pdf
A to Z Chemicals (Olyset Nets)
http://www.atoztextiles.net/
on 28 Jan 2008 at 7:10 am 2.Ed Lyman said …
Hey.. I noticed this blog and I’m trying to promote our
new music album, I thought it might be relevant to your readers.
The cd is called, Save My Soul - Music to Prevent Malaria.
For every cd we sell, we’re going to distribute a mosquito net. Also another organization has pledged to match the amount of nets we distribute… please check us out and help us think of new ways to raise money and awareness about malaria…
the cd is at http://www.savemysoulcd.com
on 16 Jun 2008 at 7:36 am 3.Manuel Lluberas said …
When it comes to malaria vector control, here’s something to ponder.
A recent press release from WHO
(http://www.afro.who.int/note_press/2008/pr20081905.html) states the following:
“The Director of the Division in charge of AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at the WHO Regional Office, Dr Rufaro Chatora has cited as a typical example of such progress the cross-border activities carried out under the Lubombo Project covering Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa. He encouraged other countries
to take inspiration from such activities which have significantly reduced malaria transmission in the Lubombo Project’s target areas.
This progress is attributed to enhanced access to health services and the distribution of LLINs of a duration of 3-6 years. In the past six years, 19 countries have achieved a three-fold increase in the use of LLINs for children
aged below five years.”
This is inaccurate, troubling and needs to be addressed. According to this press release, the progress made against malaria in the Lobombo Project rests squarely on the use of ITNs. This is absolutely not true! If there is any malaria program, especially in Africa for which this is not true is that one.
Personally, I find troubling that advocacy programs insist in placing so much emphasis on the use of nets at the exclusion of all other interventions, including IRS, while calling this approach to malaria control “integrated.” It is also curious that those of us working and advocating for active malaria vector control interventions include the use of ITNs as integral part of malaria programs while those advocating for the use of nets think of them as the panacea and exclude all other proven interventions.
The press corps will print whatever is given to them, but we all need to make sure the facts are accurate. Those who work on malaria control in Africa and those of us who know these programs know that attributing the success of the Lobombo program exclusively to the use of mosquito nets is incorrect. There are a number of pubications in peer-reviewed, scientific journals to support this.
It is up to us who have dedicated so much of our lives and energy to fighting malaria in so many places to make sure the information reported regarding malaria control programs is accurate.
All the best,
Manuel F. LLuberas MS IDHA
Public Health Entomologist
on 16 Oct 2008 at 9:47 am 4.NWAMIRI IKEDINOBI SUNDAY said …
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
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