Video: "House improvement will bring malaria elimination in Africa two decades forward"

The video below is an interview with Dr. Jo Lines posted online two weeks ago. Dr. Lines is currently with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine again after several years of serving the World Health Organization in Geneva. He has been one of the frontline people in the science surrounding insecticide-treated bednets, and later in advocacy and uptake of this simple technology that has saved an estimated 1 million lives over the past decade. A remarkable achievement no doubt. Have a look...

There are some remarkable statements he makes in this interview. Although he attributes the successes of the past decade to the wide-scale deployment of insecticide-treated bednets, he omits to inform us that indoor residual spraying also played a very prominent role. Think of the US-PMI campaigns in some 15 African countries, through which millions of houses were sprayed.