WHO asks countries to issue new malaria bed nets
For years, countries including Kenya have been using insecticides known as pyrethroids to treat mosquito nets.
Source: nation.africa
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Getting ahead of insecticide-resistant malaria vector mosquitoes
In The Lancet, Manfred Accrombessi and colleagues1 report the results of a rigorous cluster-randomised, controlled, superiority trial in Benin, encompassing 54 030 households and 216 289 people, which confirms that the addition of the pyrrole insecticide chlorfenapyr to long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), as a second active ingredient to back up the pyrethroids we have relied upon so heavily for so long, can have invaluable effects on malaria transmission and disease burden. A total of 115 323 LLINs were distributed to 54 030 households and the primary outcome of mean malaria case ...
Source: thelancet.com
Smartphone operated tool uses light beam to detect malaria
Affordable, smartphone-operated tool that detects malaria could help meet UN target to end the disease, say researchers.
Source: gavi.org
Rapid, non-invasive detection tool could help accelerate progress in eliminating malaria
A quick, affordable, non-invasive detection tool could help accelerate progress in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals' target to eliminate malaria, say researchers who developed it.
Source: news-medical.net
Smartphone operated tool uses light beam to detect malaria
Affordable, smartphone-operated tool that detects malaria could help meet UN target to end the disease, say researchers.
Source: scidev.net