The call for a more coherent and holistic approach to vector control does not diminish the considerable advances made against individual vector-borne diseases.
Over the past 15 years, its incidence in sub-Saharan Africa has been cut by 45% – primarily due to the massive use of insecticide-treated bed nets and spraying of residual insecticides inside houses.
"We've been so successful, in some ways, with our control that we reduced the number of public health entomologists – the people who can do this stuff well," said Professor Steve Lindsay, a public health entomologist at Durham University in Britain.
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我们的人数越来越稀少。”
"We’re a disappearingbreed."
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全球病媒控制对策呼吁各国为病媒控制队伍提供资金，培养公共卫生昆虫学人才，并增强医疗部门的应对能力。
The GVCR calls for countries to invest in a vector-control workforce trained in public health entomology and empowered in health care responses.
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Lindsay教授说：“我们现在需要因地制宜，开展更仔细的控制工作，而不是一刀切。”
"We now need more nuanced control – not one-size-fits-all, but to tailor control to local conditions," Professor Lindsay said.
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他还说，这有助于解决新的和新出现的疾病，并有助于消除疟疾等其它疾病。
This is needed to tackle new and emerging diseases, but also to push towards elimination of others such as malaria, he said.
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Lindsay教授指出，根据新的战略方针，寨卡、登革热和基孔肯雅等疾病将不再被视为孤立的威胁。
Dr Lindsay noted that, under the new strategic approach, individual diseases such as Zika, dengue and chikungunya will no longer be considered as separate threats.