Last Updated: 04/07/2017
A Push-Pull System for Control of Outdoor Malaria Vectors
Objectives
The overall goal of this project is to reduce malaria transmission by combining outdoor baited traps with a repellent applied to the outside of houses to specifically target outdoor disease-spreading mosquitoes without the use of potentially harmful chemicals.
Principal Investigators / Focal Persons
Rationale and Abstract
In contrast to indoor repellents and insecticide-treated bed nets, this push-pull system targets those outdoor mosquitoes specifically looking to bite humans, and does not use potentially harmful chemicals that can lead to resistance. At a field site in Kenya, they will test whether their system can reduce the entry of mosquitoes into occupied houses.
Date
May 2015 — May 2017
Total Project Funding
$100,000
Funding Details
Gates Foundation (GF), United States
OPP1129057, Grand Challenges Explorations, Malaria Transmission. New Approaches for Addressing Outdoor/Residual Malaria Transmission (Round 14)
Country / Project Site(s)
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