title: Implementation of integrated vector management for disease vector control in the Eastern Mediterranean: where are we and where are we going?
abstract: Integrated vector management (IVM) is an acknowledged strategy of choice for the prevention and control of vector-borne diseases. The paper describes and documents the progress countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region have made in endorsing and translating the strategy into action at the national level. These include increased political commitment; strengthened intersectoral coordination and partnership; strengthened capacity in entomology and vector control; and scaling up of vector control interventions through universal access. These efforts, however, are compromised by inappropriate institutional arrangements in some countries; weak national capacities to address management of pesticides; , development and spread of vector resistance to insecticides, including to pyrethroids; and the expansion of emerging and re-emerging vector-borne diseases. With WHO leadership and support from partners, countries continue to address these challenges head-on.
authors.affiliation: Vector Biology and Control, Division of Communicable Disease Control World Health Organization, Regional Offĩce for the Eastern Mediterraneon, Cairo, Egypt. mnzavaa@emro.who.int
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mnzova
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bos
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zaim
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods*; D004199:Disease Vectors; D006801:Humans; D007306:Insecticides; D019083:Mediterranean Region; D010575:Pesticides; D014944:World Health Organization
chemical_list: D007306:Insecticides; D010575:Pesticides