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Bridget M. Kuehn

JAMA. 2006;295:2238-2239.

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Despite decades of efforts to control malaria, the disease continues to kill more than 1 million people each year and cause illness in as many as 500 million individuals, primarily in Africa, according to the World Health Organization. In the face of these statistics, international collaborations have sprung up to address the need for new and improved drugs to treat the illness and to develop effective vaccines. The latest such collaboration aims to tackle a third but equally important step toward controlling the disease—protecting individuals from the insect vectors of the disease.

A new program hopes to curb malaria and other diseases through the development of better insecticides and providing useful vector-control tools to communities. (Photo credit: Olivier Martel/TDR/WHO)

Combating mosquitoes' ever-evolving resistance to pesticides is the focus of the Innovative Vector Control Consortium, a 5-year pilot program that received a $50.7 million grant from the Bill . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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