Rolling back the insect-borne disease will require better coordination between aid agencies and private companies.

It is the world's most successful public health insecticide, saving millions upon millions of lives from insect-borne diseases. Yet DDT remains the world's most misunderstood chemical.

Africa Fighting Malaria is calling on the WHO, donor agencies, and other stakeholders to provide more investmentfor insecticides.

To sustain the fight against insect-borne diseases, we must improve research funding for public health insecticides.

In attempting to ban pesticides, policymakers are overlooking the risk of insect-borne diseases.

When it comes to stories on so-called toxic substances, the public discourse seems infected by "chemophobia."

The pesticide Dieldrin, like DDT, should only be used in restricted ways--primarily in controlling swarming locusts, like those currently engulfing Sahelian Africa.

Members of the European Parliament are against the use of pesticides, but also want to stop the spread of malaria.