Mosquito-borne diseases represent significant public health burden throughout the world. Control strategies that have demonstrated some success include treatment of infected individuals with drugs, application of insecticide to reduce mosquito populations, and mosquito habitat management. Although gains have been made, new tools are needed to compliment the limited number of available interventions in conjunction with further optimization of current products to meet demands from emerging and expanding risk. Spatial repellents have demonstrated effectiveness against malaria infection and insight into post-exposure effects is highlighting sub-lethal effects on mosquito life history traits that can be further exploited for innovative product development. Clinical trials are underway to generate rigorous evidence, documenting and evaluating the impact of a spatial repellent product on arbovirus and malaria human infection rates, to drive efforts to acquire full recommendation of spatial repellent products for inclusion in disease control programs. This presentation will provide an overview on the current status of spatial repellents in the WHO evaluation pathway towards policy recommendation.

Preventing the bite: Potential of spatial repellents in the prevention of mosquito-borne disease

254th National Meeting (2017)

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