{"id":4841,"date":"2019-08-23T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T06:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","slug":"who-allays-fears-over-mosquito-aerial-spraying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/23\/who-allays-fears-over-mosquito-aerial-spraying\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Allays Fears Over Mosquito Aerial Spraying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By\u00a0Hudson Kuteesa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rwanda has turned to drones\nin spraying mosquito prone areas as it steps up efforts to eliminate malaria, a\nmove that has attracted public scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Rwanda\nBiomedical Centre (RBC), the pilot exercise is beginning in Gasabo District\nbefore being rolled out to other parts of the country by the end this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When this was revealed in\nmedia, many Rwandan raised concerns about likely effects of the insecticide to\nbe applied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Emmanuel Chanda, the\nProject Officer of Vector Control Operations at the World Health Organization\n(WHO) Regional Office for Africa has allayed those fears\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/news\/who-allays-fears-over-mosquito-aerial-spraying\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Hudson Kuteesa Rwanda has turned to drones in spraying mosquito prone areas as it steps up efforts to eliminate malaria, a move that has attracted public scrutiny. According to Rwanda&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}