The Global Challenge of Vector Borne Diseases and How to Control Them

Understand how mosquitoes and other arthropod disease vectors can be controlled

The spread of vector-borne diseases, including malaria, Zika virus and dengue fever, are of global concern.

In 2017, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released their Global Vector Control Response (GVCR) document which promotes a stronger, strategic worldwide approach to controlling vectors of disease.

On this course, you will learn about a wide range of vectors and the diseases they transmit, from the Aedes mosquito and the Zika virus, to the tsetse fly and African sleeping sickness.

You will explore the WHO GVCR document, and will also discover how vector-borne diseases are distributed, and the suitability of vector control practices designed to prevent the spread of these dangerous diseases.

This course is designed for anyone who has an interest in learning more about arthropod disease vectors, their fascinating biology, and how they are controlled.

It is ideal for health workers, vector control researchers, as well as those working and living in countries affected by vector-borne diseases.

• A HISTORY OF VECTOR CONTROL
• Introduction
• Burden of vector borne diseases globally
• Rationale behind vector control
• Vector control challenges
• Vector control successes
• WHO GLOBAL VECTOR RESPONSE
• Introduction
• Current vector control situation
• WHO response framework
• Enabling factors
• VECTOR BIOLOGY
• Introduction
• Mosquitoes
• Ticks
• Triatomines
• Ticks & Triatomines
• Flies
• Sandflies
• Tsetse Flies
• TRADITIONAL VECTOR CONTROL
• Introduction
• Vector control classes
• Traditional vector control methods
• MODERN VECTOR CONTROL
• Introduction
• Modern vector control methods
• Successes & failures in vector control
• DESIGNING SURVEILLANCE & BEHAVIOUR CHANGE PROGRAMMES AND RCTS
• Introduction
• Why must vector control be 'integrated'?
• How to design and implement a vector control programme
• Course review