DDT for malaria control should not be banned

  • Attaran A
  • Maharaj R
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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. BMJ is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to BMJ: British Medical Journal This content downloaded from 128.223.86.31 on Thu, 21 Apr 2016 04:49:13 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Education and debate Ethical debate Doctoring malaria, badly: the global campaign to ban DDT The treaty on persistent organic pollutants?POPs?will be finalised at the United Nations Environment Programme meeting in Johannesburg, 4-9 December. One proposal is to ban DDT, still used by many countries for controlling the mosquitoes that spread malaria. It should not be banned, argue Amir Attaran and Rajendra Maharaj, specialists in malariology and also international development and law?there's no evidence that spraying with DDT harms anyone. The issue is not straightforward, says Richard Liroff, director of the World Wildlife Fund's alternatives to DDT project; the treaty raises a series of equity challenges.

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Attaran, A., & Maharaj, R. (n.d.). DDT for malaria control should not be banned. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 321(7273), 1403–1404. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25226343

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