Vector control in developing countries: With special reference to the utilization of trained personnel after malaria...

The author emphasizes that the importance of malaria eradication programmes lies not only in their effect on malaria itself but also in their tremendous impact on the entire health services of the country. The malaria eradication services provide a ready-made organization on to which other vector control activities and schemes for improved environmental sanitation can readily be grafted. Personnel involved in the operational aspects of malaria eradication should therefore be given suitable additional training so that they can be integrated into the vector control and environmental health services of the public health administration. Meanwhile, the epidemiological service of the malaria eradication programme can carry out epidemiological surveys on other disease vectors preparatory to a change-over to vector control. The trained personnel of the malaria eradication service will bring with them valuable skills and know-how, including experience of overcoming problems relating to human relations as well as those of a technical nature.