Oman Experience in Reducing the Reliance on DDT The 1st Regional meeting of the GEF Supported Countr

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Oman Experience in Reducing the Reliance on
DDTThe 1st Regional meeting of the GEF Supported
Countries in EMR.6th-8th March 2006

• Dr. Salim AlWahaibi(MD,MPH)
• Director of EHME
• Sultanate Of Oman

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DDT in Oman

• In the Sultanate of Oman, DDT was being used in
  Malaria programme since early seventies.
• It was used ONLY for indoor spraying.

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DDT in Oman

• Since 1992, the use of DDT for
• malaria vector control has been
• stopped completely and replaced by
• organophosphates and synthetic
• pyrethroids.

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DDT ( 94 -98 )

• A small amount of DDT was
• occasionally used (1994-1998) for a
• few isolated cases of Leishmania for
• controlling sand flies.  

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Inventory of Stock

• On 1 / 9 / 1994
• DDT WP 75 in DGHA store 318 containers X 35
  Kg 11130
• DDT WP 75 in DME store 122 containers X 35
  Kg 4270
• DDT WP 75 in Shinas store 55 containers X
  35 Kg 1925
• DDT WP 75 Total 17325 Kg.
• Consumption 1/9/1994 - 5/1998 325 Kg
• Donated to Yemen 17000 Kg .

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Inventory of Stock

• On 1 / 9 / 1994
• DDT Technical 140 container x55
• 7700 Kg .
• Consumed NIL
• Donated 7700 Kg .

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DDT Donation

• All the available stock of about 7700 kgs of DDT
  (technical) and 17000 kgs 75 DDT (WWP) has been
  donated to other country in the month of May
  1998, for their malaria control programme and no
  further amount of DDT was available in Oman.

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DDT Monitoring Data

• Partial susceptibility and total
• immunity of malaria vectors were
• reported during the trial in 1992
• from different areas .
• Sandflies are found to be 100 susceptible to
  DDT .

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Legal Mechanism for DDT management

• 6 . DDT is banned by the Ministerial
• decision ( 316 / 2001 ) ,The directorate of
• Chemical substances implemented the
• decision according to Royal Decree
• ( 46 / 95 ).

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National umbrella act and relevant international
treaties

• Oman is Party to the Stockholm Convention since
  2005 to Basel Convention since 1994 and to the
  Rotterdam Convention since 1999. All three
  conventions are addressing also DDT. However, the
  remaining DDT stocks were exported from Oman
  already in may 1998.
• Royal Decree No. (46/95) issued the Law on
  Handling and use of Chemicals, which is
  considered as umbrella law for all chemicals.

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Enforcement legislation / enforcement capacity

• MD (317/2001), MD (248/97), MD (316/2001) are
  regulating packing and labeling and registration
  of hazardous chemicals and prohibition of DDT
  respectively.
• According to the MOH Malaria Eradication
  strategy, the use of DDT for malaria control is
  prohibited since 1992 due to vector resistance.
• Regulation (Guidelines of safe chemical
  handling, civil Defense Dept) of the ROP sets
  policy of hazardous chemical transportation,
  according to which also DDT had to be transported
  (Article No.6 )

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Substitution to DDT

• During the years 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and
  1999, we have used Sumithion 40 WP
  (organophosphorous) as indoor house spraying
  where 4090, 5042, 552, 974, 242, and 89 kgs were
  consumed respectively

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Substitution to DDT

• During the years 1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 99 ,
• 2000 we have used ICON 10WP
• ( Lambda-cyhalothrin synthetic Pyrethroid )
• as indoor spraying where 3.8 , 448 , 560 ,
• 244 , and 77.4 kg were consumed respectively .

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Integrated Vector Management

• Larviciding
• Intersectoral Collaboration
• Community Participation
• Biological control

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