Trapping monitor lizards (preferred host of riverine Tsetse). icipe is identifying attractive odours from these animals in order to develop ion potent or factory bits.
icipe is a unique and advanced research and training organisation working to improve the lives and livelihoods of people in Africa. Because insects and other arthropods have a major impact in almost every area of their physical well-being and prosperity, icipe is making its contribution by continuing to improve the plant, animal, human and environmental health of, primarily, smallholder farmers and disadvantaged urban dwellers in Africa.
This biennial scientific report for the period 2004–2005 summarises icipe's research and development (R and D) activities carried out at the Nairobi-based headquarters as well as at the various field stations and research sites comprising of over 500 hectares covering most of the ecozones of Africa.
icipe, an intergovernmental research and training centre, has been developing eco-friendly pest and vector management technologies to improve the well-being of peoples of the tropics through research by means of the 4Hs paradigm (thus improving human, animal, plant and environmental health) and with the academic experience of its partner universities in Africa, capacity building among young scientists (thus revitalising research in African universities).
icipe's human health research focuses on anopheline mosquitoes, which transmit the malaria parasite. Malaria is the tropics' most serious infectious disease, affecting more than 500 million people yearly, 3 million of whom die from the disease. Its effective and sustainable control in most parts of the tropics cannot be realistically accomplished without new tools and approaches for fighting both the parasites and the mosquito vectors.
Vector control and treatment methods previously effective in controlling malaria are now largely ineffective due to the growing prevalence of insecticide-resistant mosquitoes and drug-resistant parasites. Resistance to anti-malarials is emerging and spreading faster than new drugs are being developed and deployed. Thus, there is need for the development of new control methods that can supplement the mosquito-killing measures that currently target mainly the adult insects.
