Repellents and New "Spaces of Concern" in Global Health

Overview

Journal Med Anthropol

Specialty Social Sciences

Date 2017 Jun 9

PMID 28594568

Citations 3

Authors

Ann H Kelly

Hermione N Boko Koudakossi

Sarah J Moore

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Abstract

Today, malaria prevention hinges upon two domestic interventions: insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor residual spraying. As mosquitoes grow resistant to these tools, however, novel approaches to vector control have become a priority area of malaria research and development. Spatial repellency, a volumetric mode of action that seeks to reduce disease transmission by creating an atmosphere inimical to mosquitoes, represents one way forward. Drawing from research that sought to develop new repellent chemicals in conversation with users from sub-Saharan Africa and the United States, we consider the implications of a non-insecticidal paradigm of vector control for how we understand the political ecology of malaria.

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