Ecologists can enable communities to implement malaria vector control in Africa

Autor: Jasper N. Ijumba, Ulrike Fillinger, Marcel Tanner, Bart G J Knols, Hassan Mshinda, W Richard Mukabana, Evan M. Mathenge, Deo Mtasiwa, Ingeborg van Schayk, Gamba Nkwengulila, G Michael Kiama, Gerry F. Killeen, Marcia C. Castro, Steven W. Lindsay, Ibrahim Kiche, Khadija Kannady, Leonard E. G. Mboera, Yoichi Yamagata
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2006
Předmět:
Rural Population
Mosquito Control
Urban Population
western kenya
mosquito larvae
0302 clinical medicine
larval habitats
030212 general & internal medicine
Laboratory of Entomology
biology
4. Education
Environmental resource management
1. No poverty
Public relations
PE&RC
dar-es-salaam
3. Good health
Outreach
Infectious Diseases
Scale (social sciences)
Population Surveillance
insecticide-treated nets
Direct experience
medicine.medical_specialty
Opinion
lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
lcsh:RC955-962
spatial-distribution
030231 tropical medicine
Developing country
Health Promotion
Community Health Planning
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
03 medical and health sciences
Grassroots
Anopheles
integrated control
medicine
Animals
Humans
lcsh:RC109-216
business.industry
anopheles-gambiae
Public health
Community Participation
biology.organism_classification
Laboratorium voor Entomologie
Vector control
Insect Vectors
Malaria
appraisal ruma
Health promotion
Tanzania
sub-saharan africa
Africa
Parasitology
business
Zdroj: Malaria Journal 5 (2006)
Malaria Journal, 5
Malaria Journal
Malaria Journal, Vol 5, Iss 1, p 9 (2006)
Malaria journal, 2006, Vol.5, pp.9 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
ISSN: 1475-2875
Popis: Background Integrated vector management (IVM) for malaria control requires ecological skills that are very scarce and rarely applied in Africa today. Partnerships between communities and academic ecologists can address this capacity deficit, modernize the evidence base for such approaches and enable future scale up. Methods Community-based IVM programmes were initiated in two contrasting settings. On Rusinga Island, Western Kenya, community outreach to a marginalized rural community was achieved by University of Nairobi through a community-based organization. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Ilala Municipality established an IVM programme at grassroots level, which was subsequently upgraded and expanded into a pilot scale Urban Malaria Control Programme with support from national academic institutes. Results Both programmes now access relevant expertise, funding and policy makers while the academic partners benefit from direct experience of community-based implementation and operational research opportunities. The communities now access up-to-date malaria-related knowledge and skills for translation into local action. Similarly, the academic partners have acquired better understanding of community needs and how to address them. Conclusion Until sufficient evidence is provided, community-based IVM remains an operational research activity. Researchers can never directly support every community in Africa so community-based IVM strategies and tactics will need to be incorporated into undergraduate teaching programmes to generate sufficient numbers of practitioners for national scale programmes. Academic ecologists at African institutions are uniquely positioned to enable the application of practical environmental and entomological skills for malaria control by communities at grassroots level and should be supported to fulfil this neglected role.
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