In practice, nothing much had been working. In 2000, a world health conference in Abuja, Nigeria, set a goal: by 2005, 60 percent of African children would be sleeping under nets. By 2005, only 3 percent were.
By all means, we should distribute bed nets, and the more the better. But DDT may be a cheaper and more effective tool to fight malaria. Of course, what we really need is a vaccine.
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I second the motion towards DDT..the few deaths caused by using it (from being a carcinogen) are small in comparison to the number of malaria deaths each year. I once saw a documentary which claimed that it was all a big conspiracy that DDT was banned...
Although I'm not quite sure a vaccination would really be the best idea either http://www.mercola.com/2002/dec/30/dtp_vaccine.htm . Though admittedly diseases like TB and Diptheria are different than Malaria.
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