Sentences with word «bednet»

Using infection and mosquito bite data for five villages in Papua New Guinea the team measured biting characteristics to model the impact of bednets on disease control and combined this with geospatial modelling.

Vector borne disease control often relies on universal distribution of interventions, such as long - lasting insecticide treated bednets for malaria and mass drug administration for filariasis.

And he said a Conservative government would build on this by pressing for further progress on trade, abolishing «killer tariffs» such as levies on imports of anti-malarial bednets and vital medicines.

The strategy was containment: Build a firewall around areas of drug resistance by ramping up control measures, such as bednets, rapid diagnostic tests, and ACTs.

That means that governments will have to choose between subsidizing private sector drugs or funding bednets and drugs distributed through the public sector, says Laxminarayan — and the private sector drugs will likely lose out.

However, we also found that the introduction of bednets reduced nightly biting enough to offset this effect.

«Our research in Papua New Guinea shows that the distribution of bednets increased heterogeneity in exposure,» continued Dr Reimer, «which could potentially lengthen the number of rounds of MDA required.

Gates said that ending malaria for good would take many years and a range of tools both new and old - from bednets and mosquito traps to a new vaccine and next generation gene tools.

They do have to sleep under bednets, but if thats what you've always done, then there is no whining and it's not weird.

Dr Reimer said: «In this study, we explored the links between heterogeneous mosquito bite exposure and filariasis infection and how relationships change with the distribution of bednets.

In Uganda — and since last year in Kenya — more than 1,000 Living Goods «community health promoters» in bright blue T - shirts make their rounds through urban communities and rural neighborhoods, peddling an assortment of malaria medicine, fortified cereals, vitamins and soap, as well as larger items such as cookstoves, solar lanterns and bednets.

The main vectors, A. dirus and A. minimus, bite outdoors, so in contrast to Africa, bednets are of limited use.

Bednets can't prevent malaria if people don't use them.

Bednets, diagnostic tests and newer drugs have saved an estimated 4.3 million lives, but malaria still killed half a million people globally last year

«I'd say what we've shown is that if we can provide people with existing technologies such as drugs and bednets, we have the capacity as a global community to reduce the misery this disease causes.