Editor,

Refer to Paul Ntambara’s article, "Of the askari and my mosquito net” (The New Times, November 25).

While mosquito nets and aggressive therapy using a concoction of various antimalarial drugs have been helpful in mitigating malaria in the country, there needs to be a long lasting solution to eradicate malaria.

This would involve among other things, heavily spraying malaria hotbeds with environment-friendly pesticides at a large scale like it was done in the Americas to eradicate mosquito-borne diseases, releasing infertile mosquitoes in the environment, draining adequately inhabited areas etc.

Malaria should be fought holistically and then we can see the end of it.

I also just read that the University of Rwanda will become research intensive with our new foreign administrators. I believe they should prioritise malaria research, especially research on vaccines and environment-friendly technologies to curb the disease.

Mucyo, RomeItaly