International Public Health Pesticides Workshop: Bringing New Pesticide Products to Market

Currently, there are barriers for the introduction of new chemicals and products to support the control of vectors that carry public health diseases such as dengue, malaria and encephalitis especially in tropical countries. At the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention, the Parties took a decision to establish a Global Alliance to promote the development and deployment of alternative products, methods and strategies to DDT for disease vector control. One of the goals of this Global Alliance is: “To make available new alternative vector control chemicals”.

This International Public Health Pesticides Workshop provided a forum for regulators from disease endemic developing countries to examine the barriers, capacities and solutions for increasing the efficiency of registration of new Public Health Pesticides toward stimulating the marketing of new PHP products. 

The International Public Health Pesticides Workshop provides a forum for regulators from disease endemic developing countries to examine the barriers, capacities and solutions for increasing the efficiency of registration of new PHPs toward stimulating the marketing of new PHP products.

Approximately twenty-seven selected pesticide Regulators from a wide cross-section of disease endemic developing countries. Presentations were entertained from individual specific key stakeholders (approximately 13) including related experts from developing countries, industry, competent authorities in developed countries, philanthropic organizations, NGOs, IGOs and Donors. In total, participation included approximately forty persons.