Vector Control Advisory Group
Independent evaluation of the public health value of innovative new tools, technologies and approaches for vector control is needed to enable WHO to provide evidence-based advice to Member States on whether their deployment is justified. This is essential to ensure that scarce resources available for disease control are used to maximum impact. In order to assist WHO in developing public health policy on new tools, the Vector Control Advisory Group (VCAG) assesses the public health value of new interventions and provides guidance on developing the evidence base required to inform such assessments.
Chemosensory interference: repel and lure strategy
How the intervention works: The current strategy proposed for evaluation under this intervention class is a repel-and-lure strategy. This intervention is designed to reduce the prevalence of malaria by repelling blood-feeding mosquitoes from houses and their immediate surroundings with a spatial repellent product placed on the eaves of houses, and to lure them towards solar-powered odour-baited mosquito traps placed outside houses.
Disease(s) that may be reduced in prevalence or prevented: Malaria.
Population(s) intended to be protected: Populations living in areas endemic for malaria.
Status of review: VCAG reviewed the concept and preliminary elements of a planned large-scale epidemiological trial in May 2018.
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Wageningen University
Repel-and-lure strategy for malaria control
Repel-and-lure strategy for malaria control
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