2019 Pan-African Mosquito Control Association (PAMCA) Conference

Abt Associates experts will present at the 2019 Pan-African Mosquito Control Association (PAMCA) Conference, which brings together mosquito-control experts and researchers from Africa and beyond. The theme of this year’s conference is Strengthening surveillance systems for vector-borne disease elimination in Africa.

Abt staff from the PMI VectorLink Project will present the following:

ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

Parallel Session 3 | Monday, September 23 | Workshop Hall (BETE ABC)
4:40 – 4:50 p.m.
A good spray: entomological surveillance results from a cluster randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a third generation indoor residual spray product on malaria transmission in Mozambique (link)
Abt Presenter: Kenyssony Varela

5:00 – 5:10 p.m.
Insecticide susceptibility status of An. gambiae s.l. in four sentinel sites in Cameroon (link)
Abt Presenter: Etienne Fondjo

Parallel Session 4 | Tuesday, September 24, Main Hall
3:00 – 3:10 p.m.
Host preference and feeding patterns of primary malaria vectors, Anopheles arabiensis and Anopheles gambiae s.s. in sites with or without indoor residual spraying in Rwanda (link)
Abt Presenter: Elias Niyituma 

Parallel Session 5 | Tuesday, September 24 | Workshop Hall (BETE ABC)
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Increasing intensity of pyrethroid resistance in An. gambiae s.l. and the implication for vector control in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Abt Presenter: Francis Wat’senga

POSTERS:

Insecticide susceptibility of An. gambiae s.l to chlorfenapyr in areas of high pyrethroid resistance from Cote d’Ivoire: Implications for malaria vector control (link)
Abt Presenter: Bernard Kouassi Loukou

Susceptibility testing of Anopheles malaria vectors with the neonicotinoid insecticide clothianidin; results from 16 African countries, in preparation for indoor residual spraying with new insecticide formulations (link)              
Abt Presenter: Richard Oxborough

Malaria vectorial system and insecticide resistance in Ethiopia (link)
Abt Presenter: Meshesha Managido

Comparison of malaria transmission and vector dynamics during years when IRS was/was not conducted in Senegal (link)
Abt Presenter: Abdoulaye Diop

Estimates of entomological indicators in Zambia during three years of indoor residual spraying with pirimiphos methyl (link)
Abt Presenter: Westone Hamwata

Evaluation of Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein ELISA protocols for sporozoite detection in mosquito homogenates (link)
Abt Presenter: Nobert Mudare

Association of Anopheles gambiae sl KDR polymorphism with anti-Plasmodium falciparum refractory phenotype in Zimbabwe (link)
Abt Presenter: Brenda Makonyere

Booster Talk | Wednesday, September 25 | Main Hall (BOUMA ABC)
2:33 – 2:36 p.m.
2018 insecticide resistance status of Anopheles gambiae s.l. in Burkina Faso (link)
Abt Presenter: Hien Aristide

Booster Talk | Wednesday, September 25 | Main Hall
2:42 – 2:45 p.m.
The biting patterns of anopheles mosquitoes from three high malaria burden districts in Malawi (link)
Abt Presenter: Leonard Dandalo