Vector control in developing countries: With special reference to the utilization of trained personnel after malaria eradication.

The author emphasizes that the importance of malaria eradication programmes lies not only in their effect on malaria itself but also in their tremendous impact on the entire health services of the country. The malaria eradication services provide a ready-made organization on to which other vector control activities and schemes for improved environmental sanitation can readily be grafted. Personnel involved in the operational aspects of malaria eradication should therefore be given suitable additional training so that they can be integrated into the vector control and environmental health services of the public health administration.