Sixty years ago, the WHO launched the Global Malaria Eradication Program (GMEP) (1955–1969). The GMEP was successful in eliminating malaria from numerous regions in temperate climates (including parts of southern Europe, the United States, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, India, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Venezuela, and the Caribbean Islands) (2 ). Operationally, the GMEP was l...

Malaria is the leading cause of death in Kenya highlands. Malaria is a vector-borne disease and mosquito is the vector that transmits the parasites from infected people to others. Controlling mosquito larval habitats is important in eradicating malaria. Modeling the spatially distributed mosquito larval habitats is challenging. This study explores a mosquito habitat modeling approach, which int...

Malaria control is increasingly recognised as playing a key role in poverty reduction in high burdened countries. The programme for malaria eradication based on vector control using very large quantities of DDT started in 1949 in the country and resulted in a dramatic reduction in malaria incidence. Vector population recovery, mainly due to resistance to DDT in Anopheles populations as well as ...