RATIONALIZING HISTORICAL SUCCESSES OF MALARIA CONTROL IN AFRICA IN TERMS OF MOSQUITO RESOURCE AVAILABILTY MANAGEMENT

GERRY F. KILLEEN Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre, Ifakara, Kilombero District, Tanzania; Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland; Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Entomology Unit, Food and Agriculture Organization/International Atomic Energy Agency, Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory, Seibersdorf, Austria

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AKLILU SEYOUM Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre, Ifakara, Kilombero District, Tanzania; Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland; Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Entomology Unit, Food and Agriculture Organization/International Atomic Energy Agency, Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory, Seibersdorf, Austria

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BART G. J. KNOLS Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre, Ifakara, Kilombero District, Tanzania; Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland; Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Entomology Unit, Food and Agriculture Organization/International Atomic Energy Agency, Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory, Seibersdorf, Austria

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Environmental management of mosquito resources is a promising approach with which to control malaria, but it has seen little application in Africa for more than half a century. Here we present a kinetic model of mosquito foraging for aquatic habitats and vertebrate hosts that allows estimation of malaria transmission intensity by defining the availability of these resources as the rate at which individual mosquitoes encounter and use them. The model captures historically observed responses of malaria transmission to environmental change, highlights important gaps in current understanding of vector ecology, and suggests convenient solutions. Resource availability is an intuitive concept that provides an adaptable framework for models of mosquito population dynamics, gene flow, and pathogen transmission that can be conveniently parameterized with direct field measurements. Furthermore, the model presented predicts that drastic reductions of malaria transmission are possible with environmental management and elucidates an ecologic basis for previous successes of integrated malaria control in Africa before the advent of DDT or chloroquine. Environmental management for malaria control requires specialist skills that are currently lacking in sub-Saharan Africa where they are needed most. Infrastructure and human capacity building in clinical, public health, and environmental disciplines should therefore be prioritized so that growing financial support for tackling malaria can be translated into truly integrated control programs.

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