Jan 13, 2012

Portfolio: Malaria in Suriname: a New Era

Everybody was asked to design the thesis for Hélène van Laar-Hiwat who promoted in 2011 on this subject at the University of Wageningen.

Suriname has been fighting malaria since the early 1900s. With these control efforts Suriname succeeded in getting the coastal area free of malaria. In the Interior, transmission continued and malaria incidence increased. An important role in malaria transmission is played by the mosquito Anopheles darlingi, the primary vector in Suriname.

In 2005 a new 5-year malaria program was initiated in Suriname which included some new malaria control strategies. This thesis describes the effect of these strategies on malaria incidence and the Anopheles darlingi populations in Suriname and also evaluates some mosquito monitoring tools.