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Scaling Up Malaria Prevention
In other parts of Tihama, where transportation
is easier, the Global Fund grant supports indoor residual
spraying (IRS).
Twice a year in the Wadi Mour area,
one of three areas targeted with this program, teams of spraymen
wearing masks and dressed in protective gear treat every inhabited
hut in 160 villages.
Although IRS is more demanding in terms of
logistics and skills, it has some advantages over insecticide
treated nets: in areas with unstable or epidemic malaria such as
in the Tihama, it has rapid
and reliable short-term
impact, and it can be targeted to the communities at highest
risk. Download a Roll Back Malaria Partnership statement
on insecticide treated nets vs indoor residual insecticide spraying.
When a hut has been sprayed, the Ministry of Health’s Malaria Programme
team carefully marks it with the date.
Every village
where spraying has been completed is also added on a map updated
by Abdu Qaid Allaw (down on the right), the director of field
operations in the Tihama region.
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