For malaria, he suggested the development of vaccines, herbal preparations, insecticide, impregnated nets and combined therapy.

Prevention is best accomplished by modern anti malaria bed nets, which are treated with insecticide.

But they forgot this the fact that birds dine on grubs, that robins eat lots of worms now saturated with DDT.

She pointed out that the control men as she called them who carpet bombed towns and fields with toxic insecticides like DDT, were only trying to kill the little stuff, the insects, not the birds.

The first goal should be to distribute long lasting insecticide treated bed nets to all of Africa s rural poor within four years.

Indoor residual spraying of insecticides has been found to be most effective in areas of relatively low or very seasonal malaria transmission (unstable malaria).

Furthermore, we have remained committed to health reform despite the many challenges the health sector is facing, and we continue to provide subsidized insecticide treated nets and drugs to needy communities.

Although no explicit mention is made of the provision of insecticide treated netting to protect humans against the bite of the mosquito that transmits malaria, such measures would also be necessary to combat the spread of that disease.

Illness and deaths from malaria can be reduced sharply by using insecticide treated bed nets to stop the mosquitoes that transmit malaria, and by effective medicines when the illness strikes.

Research into self harm in the developing world is however still very limited although an important case study is that of Sri Lanka, which is a country exhibiting a high incidence of suicide and self poisoning with agricultural pesticides or natural poisons.

Yet the potential to control malaria was actually improving, thanks to several newly emerging technologies long lasting insecticide treated bed nets to prevent the mosquitos from biting, better diagnostics to identify infections, and a new generation of highly effective medicines.