Inland Fisheries Suffering from Malaria in Central Africa

Abstract

The National Malaria Control Plan (NMCP, 2009, 2013, 2016) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) sustained for its elaboration on contributions of international experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Roll Back Malaria (RBM) and was also supported by UNICEF, the World Bank, the British Department for Development and the USAID. These international organizations absolutely want to “contribute to reduce the elimination of malaria by improving the state of health of the population by reducing the human and socio-economic burden of malaria". These NMCPs are based and developed into an evaluation of successive National Strategic Plans (NSPs). Although the last NMCP 2016-2020 in the DRC foresees the strengthening of epidemiological surveillance and monitoring and evaluation, no one has detected until now the strong drifts of the distribution plan of Long-Lasting Impregnated Mosquito Nets (LLINs), due to the particular connections nurses-fishermen in the field. The latter use LLINs as a capture pocket (15  to  30 sewn nets) for their beach seine. And this may last a long time when we know that the durability and quality of LLINs are limited to 1 year, which leads the NMCP to recommend renewing them each year. It should be noted that the life of a beach seine with mosquito nets is also one year. As for the insecticides used for the impregnation, it is essentially pyrethroids such as deltamethrin and permethrin (Equiterre, 2019) without any direct harmful effect on