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This project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be used to establish an evidence base that can help malaria control program managers make informed decisions about monitoring malaria transmission and implementing or adjusting malaria control interventions across a broad range malaria transmission intensities. The primary operational goals of this project are:
- to develop and validate a set of clear and practical entomological and epidemiological tools to determine malaria transmission levels and the burden of malaria at a given site,
- to provide the results of carefully implemented studies that will inform local and global discussion about the selection of optimal malaria control interventions for different parasite transmission levels, and
- to assess the impact of vector biological factors, such as variable levels or different mechanisms of insecticide resistance or variation in vector behaviors (e.g., crepuscular vs night feeding, endophily vs exophily) on the effectiveness of malaria control interventions
This project will develop improved methods for monitoring and evaluating malaria control interventions to reduce transmission at all levels of malaria endemicity. The consortium project will work in areas ranging from epidemic malaria in the East African highlands, to urban malaria in Dar es Salaam, and will encompass low-to-moderate-to high transmission zones in Indonesia, as well as areas of holoendemic malaria in western Kenya and Zambia.
