Ecologists can enable communities to implement malaria vector control in Africa

Mukabana, Wolfgang R; Kannady, Khadija; Kiama, G Michael; Ijumba, Jasper N.; Mathenge, Evan; Ibrahim, Kamarulzaman; Nkwengulila, Gamba; Mboera, Leonard E. G.; Mtasiwa, Deo; Yamagata, Yoichi; Schayk, Ingeborg van; Knols, Bart G. J.; Lindsay, Steve W.; Castro, Márcia C.; Mshinda, Hassan; Tanner, Marcel; Fillinger, Ulrike; Killeen, Gerry F.

doi:10.1186/1475-2875-5-9

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“…In both programs, larval source management was part and parcel of the interventions. As reported in this study, community mobilization through appropriate sensitization was a key component in the two programs [16]. As previously described by Rogers and Shoemaker [34], the dissemination of information and adoption of appropriate malaria control activities require all the elements of the classic theory of the Diffusion of Innovations.…”

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“…Successful community-based integrated malaria vector control programs in both rural and urban settings have been reported in Kenya and Tanzania, respectively [16]. In both programs, larval source management was part and parcel of the interventions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As previously described by Rogers and Shoemaker [34], the dissemination of information and adoption of appropriate malaria control activities require all the elements of the classic theory of the Diffusion of Innovations. This means that community-based malaria mosquito larval control should be communicated through personal interaction during community training sessions focused on learning-by-doing [16]. …”

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“…There has already been notable research establishing the feasibility of community-supported larviciding in an urban setting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania [15], and the concept of enabling communities to implement and be engaged in local malaria control interventions has been promoted as a way to scale up IVM programming [16]. Yet the application of larviciding in rural areas remains understudied.…”

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Community Knowledge and Acceptance of Larviciding for Malaria Control in a Rural District of East-Central Tanzania

Mboera

Kramer

Miranda

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The use of microbial larvicides, a form of larval source management, is a less commonly used malaria control intervention that nonetheless has significant potential as a component of an integrated vector management strategy. We evaluated community acceptability of larviciding in a rural district in east-central Tanzania using data from 962 household surveys, 12 focus group discussions, and 24 in-depth interviews. Most survey respondents trusted in the safety (73.1%) and efficacy of larviciding, both with regards to mosquito control (92.3%) and to reduce malaria infection risk (91.9%). Probing these perceptions using a Likert scale provides a more detailed picture. Focus group participants and key informants were also receptive to larviciding, but stressed the importance of sensitization before its implementation. Overall, 73.4% of survey respondents expressed a willingness to make a nominal household contribution to a larviciding program, a proportion which decreased as the proposed contribution increased. The lower-bound mean willingness to pay is estimated at 2,934 Tanzanian Shillings (approximately US$1.76) per three month period. We present a multivariate probit regression analysis examining factors associated with willingness to pay. Overall, our findings point to a receptive environment in a rural setting in Tanzania for the use of microbial larvicides in malaria control.

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Community Knowledge and Acceptance of Larviciding for Malaria Control in a Rural District of East-Central Tanzania

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Miranda

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“…Although the efficacy of microbial insecticide Bti as an alternative to DDT provided the scientific justification for the study, the protocol of the UMCP emphasized the operational feasibility of implementing a large-scale larval control programme using Community-Owned Resource Persons (CORPs). The intervention on trial therefore was a task of integration: to develop sustainable larval control into a decentralized municipal administrative system (Mukabana et al, 2006). Originally instituted as part of post-independence reforms in the 1960s aimed at eradicating social inequities, CORPs were intended to serve as an administrative bridge between citizens and the municipality.…”

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Neglected malarias: The frontlines and back alleys of global health

Kelly

Beisel

2011

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Among the public health community, 'all except malaria' is often shorthand for neglected tropical diseases. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's cause ce´le`bre, malaria receives a tremendous amount of funding, as well as scientific and policy attention. Malaria has, however, divergent biological, behavioural and socio-political guises; it is multiply implicated in the environments we inhabit and in the ways in which we inhabit them. The malaria that focuses our attention crops up in the back alleys of Dar es Salaam, brought into being by local labour and municipal governance -a version of malaria that, we argue, is increasingly excluded in current eradication campaigns. This article considers the cycles of public health amnesia, memory and neglect that construe the parasitological exchange between man and mosquito. It begins by exploring the political concerns and technical capacities that have transformed malaria into a global enemy. Combining these historical accounts with ethnographic material, we suggest how malaria is disentangled from or conflated with particular places. Ultimately, our aim is to reflect upon the relationship between scale of malaria control and its social consequence, attending to the actors and relations that fall outside of contemporary global public health policy.

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