Browsing by Subject "malaria control"

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Community participation and malaria prevention programs

Mashayamombe, Norlington; Hofisi, Costa (Business Perspectives, 2016)

Malaria prevention and control programs in Zimbabwe have been hampered by low levels of cooperation by local communities. The study sought to assess the impact of community participation on cooperation in malaria prevention ...
High levels of DDT in breast milk: intake, risk, lactation duration, and involvement of gender

Bornman, Riana; Bouwman, Hindrik; Kylin, H.; Sereda, Barbara (Elsevier, 2012)

We investigated presence and levels of DDT in 163 breast milk samples from four South African villages where, in three of them, malaria is controlled with DDT-sprayed indoors. Mean ΣDDT levels in breast milk were 18, 11, ...
Undisturbed dust as a metric of long–term indoor insecticide exposure: residential DDT contamination from indoor residual spraying and its association with serum levels

Gaspar, Fraser W.; Bouwman, Hindrik; Chevrier, Jonathan; Bornman, Riana; Crause, Madelein (Elsevier, 2015)

Although approximately 123 million people may be exposed to high levels of insecticides through the use of indoor residual spraying (IRS) for malaria control, fewstudies exist on indoor insecticide contamination due to ...