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Resources
- PAN International DDT Resolution, December 2007
- A Sustainable Strategy for Eliminating DDT from Disease Vector Control Programs and Reducing Malaria: The Mexican Model October, 2007
- Expert List on Preventing Malaria & Reducing Reliance on DDT
- Congressional Briefing for Africa Malaria Day, featuring experts from Africa and U.S. April 24, 2007
- Malaria Awareness Day, House Subcommittee on Global Health and Africa April 25, 2007 Transcript
- DDT & Malaria: Setting the Record Straight Fact Sheet in English, En Espanol
- PAN International DDT Statement: Supporting Safe and Effective Strategies without DDT In English En Fracais
- PAN North America Position Statement: Preventing Malaria, Promoting Health - Solutions Beyond DDT
In the News
- Press Release: Safe alternatives to malaria-controlling DDT focus of UN-backed meeting, UN News Center, November 2008
- Kenya: Dramatic fall in number of malaria deaths, EurekaAlert - Washington DC, October 2008
- Study: Malaria Deaths in Gambia drop steeply, Michael Kahn, Reuters, October 2008
- Uganda: Katakwi Starts Indoor Spraying, The Monitor - Kampala, October 2008
- New Malaria Research: insecticide cross resistance, 2008
- War Against Malaria Can Be Won, Without DDT, Dr. César Chelala,The Epoch Times, October 2008
- Two foundations pledge more funding for malaria research, Patrick Kisembo, IPPMedia, October 2008
- Rwanda: Lessons learnt from 2007 Spraying Campaign,September 2008
- Malaria deaths down by half in Zanzibar, The Citizen,September 2008
- Tanzania: We're at war with malaria, August 2008
- Antarctic Melt Releasing DDT, Tainting Penguins, National Geographic News, May 2008
- China's Pearl River tainted with DDT, January 2008
- Malaria Deaths Halved in Rwanda and Ethiopia David Brown, Washington Post February 2008
- News from Uganda
- News from 2007
- Bad Blood Kim Larsen, On Earth December 2007
- Rachel Carson’s Birthday Bashing by Kirsten Weir Salon.com June 29, 2007
- DDT is Unsafe by Abou Thiam, Washington Times June 4, 2007
- DDT Fictions Karl Tupper, Pittsburgh Tribune May 14, 2007
- Press Release: World Health Organization Clarifies Support for Reducing Reliance on DDT for Malaria Control May 3, 2007
Recent Studies
- DDT and its metabolites in breast milk from the Madeira River basin in the Amazon, Brazil. Chemosphere, August 2008
Persistence of organochlorine chemical residues in fish from the Tombigbee River (Alabama, USA): Continuing risk to wildlife from a former DDT manufacturing facility. Environmental Pollution, August 2008
Exposure of Mother - Child and Postpartum Woman - Infant Pairs to DDT and its Metabolites in Tianjin, China. Science of the Total Environment, April 2008
- A new global malaria eradication strategy, Viewpoint from Lancet, March 2008.
- DDT and Breast Cancer in Young Women: New Data on the Significance of Age at Exposure. Environmental Health Perspectives August 2007
- Impaired Semen QualityAssociated With Environmental DDT Exposure in Young Men Living in a Malaria Area in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. Andrology Journal May/June 2007