Table 1 Potential sustainability of vector elimination strategies in malaria control, elimination and eradication programmes
From: Sustainable malaria control: transdisciplinary approaches for translational applications
Subgroup | Advantages | Disadvantages | Sustainability |
|---|---|---|---|
Aerial spraying[20] | Cost-effective and simple to implement | Only effective for controlling exophilic mosquitoes | It may fail as it does not target indoor feeding mosquitoes, which are responsible for the bulk of malaria transmission |
Can eliminate sources of mosquitoes | There is need to develop a cheap and effective larvicide. Insect growth regulators are expensive and limited in availability. | An. gambiae was eliminated in Brazil using arsenic larviciding | |
Environmental control[16] | Can lead to vector elimination | Environmental modification is expensive and may be possible only in more advanced economies | Potential to bring about vector elimination |
Effective if implemented correctly | Expensive and technically challenging for poorer countries | Potential to bring about vector elimination |