Yaounde Initiative Foundation» malaria

YIF Directors meet Cameroon Deputy High Commissioner

Terry Wiles — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:42:30 +0000

The Cameroon Deputy High Commissioner, Mr Denis Nyuydzewira, joined YIF Directors, Terry Wiles, Graham Matthews and Hans Dobson for a lunchtime meeting at the Farmer’s Club in Whitehall Court on Wednesday 9 November 2011. We have always enjoyed good relations with the High Commission staff, but this was the first opportunity to talk in detail about technical and development issues in Cameroon. Mr Nyuydzewira was briefed on the Libamba development project, blackfly control work, and malaria mosquito management. He expressed interest in finding ways to develop coffee and livestock production in Cameroon. We agreed to keep him informed on YIF activities, and to try to schedule visits to Cameroon for the next time he returns home on leave. The mutual agreement was that we should seek ways to build on the productive Cameroonian/British collaboration over the past 8 years in order to expand the developmental impact even further in Cameroon and beyond.

Animated Guide to Indoor Residual Spraying

Graham Matthews — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:12:46 +0000

WHO published a short booklet on how to spray the inside of houses for mosquito control. An animated version of this booklet has been produced as a DVD and can be downloaded from

http://www.who.int/whopes/equipment/en/

You can click on either the pdf version of the booklet or the animated version below the text alongside a picture of the cover of the manual.

New book on Integrated Vector Management in press

Graham Matthews — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:34:51 +0000

The most recent book by Professor Graham Matthews – YIF Technical Director – is entitled ‘Integrated Vector Management’ and is due to be published by Wiley-Blackwell mid-2011. It covers the use of different control techniques for insect vectors of human disease with chapters on the diseases transmitted by insect vectors, the types of insecticide, and application technologies. In particular, the use of indoor residual spraying (IRS), space treatments, larviciding and bednets. The primary focus is the integration of these technologies with non-chemical methods such as drainage of breeding sites and house improvements to prevent the entry of vectors.