ABSTRACT
Following a survey of entomology capacity in the African Region in 1999; a commitment to strengthen capacity was made and the African Network on Vector Resistance to Insecticides (ANVR) was launched in 2000. Its aim was to facilitate Member States to build capacity in vector control and to collaborate with institutions to standardize methods and approaches. In 2006 ANVR assessed capacity with regard to national malaria control programmes. This assessment provided data on the capacity of countries across the Region to undertake vector surveillance. Recommendations to improve the situation followed and in 2007; through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; a project to strengthen infrastructure and capacity was begun. This article outlines the impressive results of the project and its wider implications for adopting similar approaches across the Region
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Africa , Capacity Building , Entomology , Insect Vectors , Malaria/prevention & control , National Health Programs , World Health OrganizationSubject(s)
Onchocerciasis , Therapeutics , Insecticides , Vector Control of Diseases , Entomology , LarvicidesSubject(s)
Larvicides , Insecticides , Onchocerciasis , Therapeutics , Vector Control of Diseases , EntomologyABSTRACT
Il est important de savoir distinguer les Anopheles; seuls agents de transmission du paludisme; des Culicines source de nuisance pour la population. La morphologie; l'ecologie larvaire; le comportement de piqures et la distribution microgeographique constituent autant d'elements necessaires a leur differentiation
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Aedes/parasitology , Anopheles/parasitology , Culex/parasitology , Entomology , MalariaABSTRACT
La biologie moleculaire qui a fait son entree en entomologie medicale depuis 5 ou 6 ans peut y intervenir a deux niveaux d'utilisation. Elle est d'abord un outil de diagnostic (determination; taxonomie; genetique des populations) et permet de definir les bases moleculaires de la capacite vectorielle avec pour objectif final de produire des moustiques transgeniques. Seule cette seconde utilisation releve de l'entomologie moleculaire. Dans cet article il y est donc fait un bref survol des possibilites offertes par la biologie moleculaire et des developpements probables du genie genetique en entomologie medicale