Essentials

ESSENTIALS is developing and evaluating approaches to assess the performance of new classes of insecticide treated nets (ITNs) for malaria control.

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News article LSTM co-led research in The Lancet: Effect of long-lasting insecticidal nets with and without piperonyl butoxide on malaria indicators in Uganda (LLINEUP) From: LSTM LSTM co-led research in The Lancet: Effect of long-lasting insecticidal nets with and without piperonyl butoxide on malaria indicators in Uganda (LLINEUP) LSTM’s Professor Martin Donnelly has co-led research investigating the impact of adding the synergist piperonyl butoxide (PBO) to long lasting...
News article The Barrier Bednet - a unique bednet design that improves safety, cost effectiveness and lethality to insecticide resistant mosquitoes From: LSTM The Barrier Bednet - a unique bednet design that improves safety, cost effectiveness and lethality to insecticide resistant mosquitoes Researchers from LSTM have designed a new bednet that can kill mosquitoes more efficiently than existing nets, in a way that increases the choice of...
Father putting his daughter under a bednet in Burkina Faso News article Children using bed nets with new compound less likely to have malaria parasites From: LSTM Children using bed nets with new compound less likely to have malaria parasites With insecticide resistance eroding the life-saving power of bed nets—a major malaria-fighting tool—researchers reported today that in a clinical...
A typical example of improved housing beside a mosquito-producing rice field in rural Tanzania, constructed using bricks, timber and iron sheeting plus netting screens fitted over the windows. News article Protecting houses against mosquitoes with netting window screens can suppress malaria vector populations and dramatically reduce human parasite infection prevalence. From: LSTM Protecting houses against mosquitoes with netting window screens can suppress malaria vector populations and dramatically reduce human parasite infection prevalence. In an article published in Lancet Planetary Health, a team from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI),...