U.S. team holds malaria vector training

Personnel from an American military medicine university held a workshop this week on malaria vectors, namely mosquitoes, for the Ministry of Health. The sessions covered a range of topics including collection methods for larvae and adults, materials needed to identify malaria carriers, their resistance to insecticides, data management, and display techniques. Eighteen members of the ministry’s Vector Control Programme attended the workshop facilitated by the Uniformed Services University of Health Science’s Dr. Nicole Achee and John Grieco. Countrywide spraying to control mosquitoes began again last week after a noticeable absence over the past few months.