Kigali, Rwanda
April 15–17, 2024
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Presentations
Plenary: introductions, objectives, key updates
Welcome, new elected co-chair announced, introductions of participants Justin McBeath, VCWG El Hadji Amadou Niang, VCWG
Overview of agenda and objectives for VCWG-19 Corine Ngufor, VCWG
Opening Remarks:
- Prof. Claude Mambo Muvunyi - Director General, Rwanda Biomedical Center
- Dr Michael Charles - CEO, RBM Partnership to End Malaria
Update from RBM Partnership to End Malaria Daddi Wayessa, RBM Partnership to End Malaria
Updates on malaria vector surveillance and control Seth Irish, WHO GMP
Global Fund update on vector control financing Kate Kolaczinski, The Global Fund
PMI malaria vector control policy and strategy updates Sarah Zohdy, PMI
Unitaid’s vector control portfolio: an overview and update Kenny Onasanya & Rachel Evans, Unitaid
Work stream meetings
WS1: Enhancing Impact of Core Interventions
Welcome participants, meeting overview (WS1) Allan Were, Mary Kante
TT2: Global Insecticide Resistance (IR) and Vector Control (VC) trends and their implications for new tools, with a focus on impact and resistance monitoring
Panel presentations and discussion: Field experience with new tools (PBO nets, newer IRS, chlorfenapyr), with a focus on impact and resistance monitoring.
- Overview of the global IR and VC trends studies, and mention of VC in humanitarian emergencies Sylvester Coleman, LSTM
- PMI Evolve resistance monitoring overview with emphasis on clothianidin and chlorfenapyr Joseph Chabi, Abt Associates
- Indications of differential efficacy of chlorfenapyr-based ITNs between sites Rosemary Lees, LSTM
- Results from field evaluations of IRS and PBO nets – Ethiopia and Sierra Leone evaluations Emily Hilton, PATH
- The impact of next-generation dual-active ingredient ITN deployment on insecticide resistance in malaria vectors during a three-year cluster-randomized controlled trial in Tanzania Louisa Messenger, University of Nevada
TT4: Optimizing VC resources – Implications of Global IR and VC trends for national planning, global funding, prioritization, and domestic financing
Panel presentations and discussion: Ghana
- Experiences in optimizing VC resources
- Cameroon: harnessing domestic financing and community resilience strategies in sustaining Integrated Vector Management in Africa Prisca Ngo Tappa, Littoral Regional Fund for Health Promotion Cameroon
TT3: From Policy to Practice: approaches on engaging private sector in vector control
- The role of the private sector in Uganda’s vector control value chain analysis. Clarifying Qs (1-2) from the audience. Robert Mugerwa, Uganda NMCD
- Panel discussion: New funding streams and local implementation capacity for IRS through Public-Private Partnership
- Samuel Asare-Bediako, Benso Oil Palm Plantation; Wycliff Odude, Pilgrim Africa; Otubea Owusu Akrofi, Ghana NMEP
TT1: Improving the effectiveness of ITN campaigns: net design, frequency of distribution, and digitizing campaigns
- Meta-analysis on the entomological effects of differentially treated ITNs in a multi-site experimental hut study in sub-Saharan Africa Janneke Snetselaar, IVCC
- Fewer Bites for Your Buck: Changing the Frequency of ITN Mass Campaigns for Optimal Cost-Effectiveness Andrew Glover, Imperial College
- Updates from the 2024 Campaign Digitalization Meeting Giovanni Dusabe, AMP
Addressing non-biological threats: ITN quality, access and use, durability/replacement
- Deploying an LQAS-based method to collect ITN post-distribution data in resource-constrained elimination settings: the experience of Honduras and progress on implementation in other countries Lucia Fernandez, CHAI
- Raising the Floor Update Presentation Tara Seethaler, CHAI
WS2: Expanding the Vector Control Toolbox
Work stream updates Derric Nimmo, Eric Ochomo
TT2: Innovations in vector control and vector surveillance
Spatial repellents: research updates and general discussion
- Spatial repellents contribute to the reduction in malaria incidence in an area of western Kenya characterized by high malaria transmission, insecticide resistance and universal coverage of LLINs Eric Ochomo, KEMRI
- Exposure patterns of humans to malaria vectors in western Kenya and implications for malaria control Julius Odero, KEMRI
- Trials of Improved Practices to assess communities’ initial reaction to a Spatial Repellent product in Busia Country, western Kenya Moureen Ekisa, KEMRI
- Non-inferiority of SC Johnson Guardian™ a 1-year duration spatial repellent (SR) product to Mosquito Shield™, the first-in-class SR Kyeba Swai, IHI/Swiss TPH
Expert Panel
Shifting the conventional paradigm on evaluating interventions
Kibor Keitany, NMCP Kenya; Steve Harvey, JHU; Ingrid Chen, UCSF; Nicole Achee, University of Notre Dame; Tom Mascari, SCJ
TT2: Advances in new tools - Genetic control tools for malaria control
- An update on the development of gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control Michael Santos, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
- From lab towards field: progress in the development of gene drive mosquitoes for vector control Samantha O’Loughlin, Imperial College London
- Some thoughts on strategies for field trials of gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control John Connolly, Target Malaria
TT2: Advances in new tools - House modification and vector proofing
- Evaluation of passive cooling options and vector proofing for indoor heat reduction and mosquito control in western Kenya Bernard Abongo, KEMRI
- Household randomised-control trial of insecticide treated eave nets and window screens on malaria prevalence and mosquito density in unimproved house in Chalinze district, Tanzania Olukayo Odufuwa, IHI/Swiss TPH
TT1: Larval Source Management
- William Gorgas, pioneer of integrated mosquito control – his legacy is as relevant as 100 years ago Norbert Becker, University of Heidelberg
- Community-based biolarviciding for malaria control in Tanga region, Tanzania Jubilate Minja, NMCP
- Laboratory and experimental hut trials to evaluate the bio-efficacy and residual activity of Sovrenta 15WP against laboratory-reared and wild Anopheles mosquitoes in Tanzania Frank Tenywa, IHI Tanzania
TT3: Anthropology and human-centered design
- Urban malaria vector bionomics and human sleeping behavior in three cities in Senegal Fatou Ndiaye, Université Cheikh Anta Diop
- Late morning biting behaviour of Anopheles funestus is a risk factor for transmission in schools in Siaya, western Kenya Seline Omondi, KEMRI
- Integrating mosquito vector and human behavioral data for malaria prevention: an interdisciplinary approach Kaci McCoy, Johns Hopkins CCP
Wrap up Derric Nimmo, Eric Ochomo
WS3: Implementing the Global Vector Control Response
Welcome & Work Stream updates Chadwick Sikaala & Anne Wilson
TT1: Integrated Vector Management
- Current WHO IVM guidelines Seth Irish, WHO GMP
- The geographical distribution of the malaria vector Anopheles arabiensis in Cabo Verde, 2016-2023: An opportunity for new tools to control and sustain malaria elimination Adilson De Pina, Programa de Eliminação do Paludismo, Ministério da Saúde, Cabo Verde
- Zika virus: an emerging public health threat in maternal-child health Ernest Tambo, University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
- Combating malaria with the mosquito symbiont Chromobacterium anophelis sp.nov cell-free bioactive supernatant Jacques Gnambani, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Burkina Faso
- The System of Rice Intensification can produce more malaria vectors Harrison Hardy, University of Greenwich, UK
- Phenotypic and molecular characterization of pyrethroid resistance escalation in the African malaria vector Anopheles funestus Cameroon-wide Hervé Raoul Tazokong, University of Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Vector control strategies in the Gambia Ebrima D Bah, NMCP The Gambia
TT2: Capacity and Collaboration
- Supporting the setup of a malaria entomological surveillance network in Angola toward sustainable local entomological capacity Gonçalo Alves, The Mentor Initiative
- Panel discussion: Regional capacity development and collaboration: what has been done, current status and way forward
Samson Kiware, PAMCA; Chadwick Sikaala, E8; Muhammad Mukhtar, APMEN
TT3: Anopheles stephensi response
- Anopheles stephensi research agenda Anne Wilson, LSTM; Sarah Zohdy, CDC; Melissa Yoshimizu, USAID; Susanta Ghosh, Mangalore University
- Entomological monitoring for larval source management against invasive malaria vector, Anopheles stephensi, in Ethiopia Gashu Zegeye, PMI Evolve Project, Abt Associates
TT4: Vector control in humanitarian emergencies
- Introduction to the Session and Task Team Joe Lewinski, Consultant & Julius Kasozi, UNHCR
- Expanding the Vector Control Toolbox for Emergency Settings Mike Macdonald, Consultant
- Improving Coordination and Delivery of Vector Control Commodities in Uganda Julius Kasozi, UNHCR
- Vector Control: learnings from implementing in emergencies Katie Evans, The MENTOR Initiative
Final Plenary
Welcome Chair: Corine Ngufor
Exhibition Fair, 3-minute pitch:
- Envu, Christine Ochieng
- Goizper, Iñigo Garmendia
- MESTO, Wolfram Wagner
- Mitsui, Takeo Maezawa
- RAFT, Jo Lines
- Syngenta, Rose Peter
- Vestergaard, Alexis Kamdjou
IVCC strategy update Justin McBeath, IVCC
PAMCA 2025 conference Corine Karema, PAMCA
The role of vector control in malaria eradication: where are we? Helen Jamet, BMGF
Roundtable discussion and closure
Climate change, climate related emergencies and vector control
Panel presentation and discussion:
- Malaria and climate change Abdisalan Noor, Harvard University
- Questions for the panelists
- Panel members: Mohammad Mukhtar (Pakistan); Baltazar Candrinho (Mozambique); Achim Redding (BASF); Kenny Onasanya (Unitaid); Helen Jamet (BMGF); Sarah Zohdy (PMI); Kate Kolaczinski (The Global Fund)
Work Stream highlights, next steps/Way forward in 2024-2025 Corine, El Hadji