GUIDELINE FOR EFFICACY TESTING OF MOSQUITO LARVICIDES AT LABORATORY AND FIELD CONDITION

Abstract

Vector borne diseases (VBD) are emerging or resurging as a result of changes in public health policy, insecticide and drug resistance, demographic and societal changes, and genetic change in pathogens. In 2015 malaria cases and deaths declined with 18% and 48% respectively. Most of the cases were occurred in WHO African region (WHO, 2015). The wide-scale deployment of malaria control interventions brings 108malaria endemic countries in 2000 to 91 countries in 2016 (WHO, 2016). Malaria is also one of the main public health problems in Ethiopia where 75% of the geographic area has significant malaria transmission risk (Aschalewet.al, 2016).