[afro-nets] Mosquito/Malaria Control (8)

[Wendy Holmes <holmes@burnet.edu.au>]

Mosquito/Malaria Control (8)
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Dear Asteria,

As you know, malaria prevention is complex, and different
strategies are needed in different settings. I will send you
separately three relevant articles as attachments.

The first is a recent overview article on public health re-
sponses to malaria from the Lancet earlier this year. The second
is a study of impact on child mortality of bed nets in Burkina
Faso. The third relates specifically to Tanzania (and is free on
line). There is no need for further studies of the effectiveness
of bed nets - but there is a need to better understand the bar-
riers to their widespread use.

Greenwood BM, Bojang K, Whitty CJ, Targett GA. Malaria. Lancet.
2005 Apr 23-29;365(9469):1487-98.

Diallo DA, Cousens SN, Cuzin-Ouattera N, Nebie I, Ilboudo-Sanogo
E, Esposito F. Child mortality in a West African population pro-
tected with insecticide-treated curtains for a period of up to 6
years. Bull World Health Organ 2004; 82: 85­91.

Magesa S, Lengeler C, deSavigny D, Miller J, et al. Creating an
"enabling environment" for taking insecticide treated nets to
national scale: the Tanzanian experience. Malaria Journal 22
July 2005 This article is free on line at:
http://www.malariajournal.com/content/4/1/34

Best wishes,

Wendy Holmes
Burnet Institute
Melbourne, Australia
mailto:holmes@burnet.edu.au