Efficacy-testing of traps for control of Aedes spp. Mosquito vectors Vector Control Advisory Group (VCAG)

Overview

New tools to target and suppress Aedes populations are needed to protect people living in areas of risk for arboviral disease. The purpose of this document is to provide procedures and criteria for testing the efficacy of and evaluating vector traps for disease control. It includes the design of laboratory and small-scale field trials to assess the attraction and killing effects of vector traps and of large-scale community trials to determine the efficacy of traps in reducing mosquito populations in the field and disease transmission.

This document is intended to support product developers, programmes and testing institutions generate robust entomological evidence of the efficacy of vector traps for control and, for a first-in-class vector trap, evidence of the public health impact in reducing arboviral disease.