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

Leadership is a wonderful thing, but it is truly found when it is tested, and on that count malaria leadership has failed.

AEI's Roger Bate highlights a peer-reviewed paper in Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine which exposes false claims about an insecticide-free malaria control project in Mexico and Central America.

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

Cultural politics and trade disputes--rather than science--inhibit the further development of genetically modified products.

The United Nations plans to advocate drastic reductions in the use of DDT, which kills or repels the mosquitoes that spread malaria.

DDT is a proven effective anti-malaria measure, but the United Nations has abandoned science for the sake of political correctness.

The UN's push for a "zero DDT world" ignores the millions of lives DDT has saved over the past century with little-to-no adverse environmental impact and no harm to human health.