Malaria and the anti-DDT campaign: environmentalism and the poor

In: Policy: ideas, debate, opinion, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 3-5

Abstract

Critical of campaign by Western environmental organizations to deter donor countries from providing developing countries with what has historically been a far cheaper and more effective insecticide than alternative methods and describes the relationship between decreased DDT use and a higher incidence of malaria cases in poor countries. Argues that there is no affordable DDT alternative for poor countries to switch to and that continued pressure on them by developed nations and their aid agencies and environmental groups to abandon its use would have negative public health ramifications.