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The emergence and spread of insecticide resistance compromises the control of mosquito borne diseases that are responsible for millions of deaths every year in tropical and subtropical areas. Mathematical modelling is a valuable tool that can be used to explore different aspects of the development and management of insecticide resistance. We have used standard population genetics theory and ecological modelling techniques for developing models to evaluate the spread of resistance in the field. We started by developing a methodology to quantify the strength of selection for resistance occurring in nature. We used data from Mexico on the mosquito Aedes aegypti and a maximum likelihood methodol...
A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London. Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and the vast subterranean technological networks of the global North. In this book, Matthew Gandy considers the cultural and material significance of water through the experiences of six cities: Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London. Tracing the evolving relationships among modernity, nature, and the urban imagination, from different vantage points and through different periods, Gan...
Silent Violence engages the harsh reality of malaria and its effects on marginalized communities in Tanzania. Vinay R. Kamat presents an ethnographic analysis of the shifting global discourses and practices surrounding malaria control and their impact on the people of Tanzania, especially mothers of children sickened by malaria. Malaria control, according to Kamat, has become increasingly medicalized, a trend that overemphasizes biomedical and pharmaceutical interventions while neglecting the social, political, and economic conditions he maintains are central to Africa’s malaria problem. Kamat offers recent findings on global health governance, neoliberal economic and health policies, and ...
This is compounded by the lack of voice and influence that low income groups have in these official spheres.