Project Title: “Affordable scalable low-technology transfluthrin emanators for protecting against Zika transmission in low-income countries”
Project Description: Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) recently developed a simple, affordable low technology transfluthrin emanator that could be readily produced en masse and protects against Clex, Mansonia and Anopheles mosquitoes for months or years. This technology is being assessed against Aedes Zika vectors in Tanzania. USAID have provided additional funding support to enable partners from Haiti to visit Tanzania, to learn through participation in these field assessment that... Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) recently developed a simple, affordable low technology transfluthrin emanator that could be readily produced en masse and protects against Clex, Mansonia and Anopheles mosquitoes for months or years. This technology is being assessed against Aedes Zika vectors in Tanzania. USAID have provided additional funding support to enable partners from Haiti to visit Tanzania, to learn through participation in these field assessment that will be conducted over the year ahead. These partners will then conduct methodologically standardized evaluations of transfluthrin emanators made with locally-available materials when they return to Haiti, with ongoing training, advisory and technical support throughout the process from the lead partner at the Ifakara Health Institute, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the Institut De Recherche Pour Le Developpment (IRD) and the University of Glasgow. The main responsibility of IHI will be to provide technical support and training to the national malaria control programme (Programme National de Controle de la Malaria: (PNCM) at the Ministry of public Health and Population (Ministere de la Sante Publique et de la Population: MSPP in the Republic of Haiti for operationalizing the use of custom-made mosquito Eletric Trap (MET), and to paln and implement social science studies regarding usage of transfluthrin emanator (TE) products originally developed at IHI.
Principal Investigator : Nicodem Govella
Department Name : EHES
Time frame: (2016-12-01) - (2019-03-30)
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