Deadline: 13 May 2015
Challenge: To Develop new or improved Approaches for Addressing Outdoor/Residual Malaria Transmission & vector control methods that:
- Extend coverage of vector control measures to kill or repel adult mosquitoes when they bite people outdoors;
- Enhance measures that kill, repel or exclude adult mosquitoes seeking to enter houses to rest after feeding outdoors;
- Extend coverage of vector control measures to kill adult mosquitoes that readily feed on both livestock and human hosts;
- Target source reduction efforts toward the immature stages of mosquitoes in their aquatic habitats;
Priority/Target Regions: Southern Africa, the Greater Mekong Sub-region and Hispaniola
Focus Areas
A successful proposal must describe how the proposed intervention tool will address one or more of the following:
- prevention of contact between humans and malaria vectors;
- suppression of vector populations;
- a reduction in the capacity of vectors to transmit malaria parasites to humans.
Challenge Overview
Proposals that address the diversity of vector behaviors that contribute to residual transmission in malaria endemic settings. Preference will be given to ideas that are relevant to Foundation priority geographies mentioned above and approaches that address anopheline vector behaviors or developmental stages listed above. A successful proposal will:
- Include a clear statement of the hypothesis to be tested as well as the specific aims of the proposed intervention;
- Describe a suitable intervention or tool that is feasible in malaria endemic, low-resource settings;
- Include a description of how the proposed intervention addresses gaps in protection with existing vector control interventions or how the proposed intervention/tool(s) will complement or enhance current interventions;
- Describe a path to operationalization for the proposed intervention(s) among key human populations (e.g. agricultural, forestry, and mining laborers and military personnel) in priority geographies listed above; and
- Provide a clear plan to increase global access to the proposed intervention(s) to ensure that the poorest of the poor have access to any knowledge or products developed.
Approaches considered for funding (but are not limited to):
- Integration of personal protection products or clothing into bite-protection systems that require a minimal effort by the user;
- Novel “attract, and kill” approaches;
- Novel, scalable, ecologically appropriate, source reduction methods;
- Integrated intervention and entomological surveillance measures that allow for the direct measurement of transmission intensity;
- Approaches that target other common or shared mosquito behaviors that would reduce or eliminate vector populations.
For more information about this topic, please visit GCE Malaria Transmission.
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