Centre for Capacity Research, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2 rue paul gauguin, 78340, Les Clayes Sous Bois, France.
Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Avenue de la Liberation, Kinshasa, DRC, UK.
Int Health. 2021 Sep 3;13(5):480-481. doi: 10.1093/inthealth/ihab004.
The global disruptions caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis posed a threat to the momentum the vector control team at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the Programme National de Lutte contre la Tryaponosomiase Humaine Africaine (PNLTHA) had built in their efforts to control tsetse fly populations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But despite the pandemic and global lockdown, field activities did continue and the same impressive results in tsetse fly reduction were observed and the team followed this by completing a round of 'tiny target' deployment without any external presence. Such a success was possible due to the investment in vector control capacity strengthening undertaken by the LSTM and PNLTHA.
2019 年冠状病毒病危机造成的全球混乱，对利物浦热带医学院（LSTM）和非洲人类锥虫病国家防治方案（PNLTHA）的病媒控制小组在努力控制刚果民主共和国采采蝇种群方面所建立的势头构成了威胁。但是，尽管发生了大流行和全球封锁，实地活动仍在继续进行，并且观察到了同样令人印象深刻的采采蝇减少效果，随后该小组在没有任何外部人员在场的情况下完成了一轮“微小目标”部署。之所以能够取得这样的成功，是因为 LSTM 和 PNLTHA 对病媒控制能力建设进行了投资。
