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The United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) has been the focus of much criticism.
While the agency is currently funding the use of DDT in some African countries, in the past it did not.
When John Stossel accused USAID of not funding DDT because it wasn't " politically correct ," Anne Peterson, the agency's assistant administrator for global health, replied that " I believe that the strategies we are using are as effective as spraying with DDT ...
So, politically correct or not, I am very confident that what we are doing is the right strategy.
" USAID's Kent R. Hill states that the agency has been misrepresented: " USAID strongly supports spraying as a preventative measure for malaria and will support the use of DDT when it is scientifically sound and warranted.
" The Agency's website states that " USAID has never had a ' policy ' as such either ' for ' or ' against ' DDT for IRS.
The real change in the past two years has been a new interest and emphasis on the use of IRS in general — with DDT or any other insecticide — as an effective malaria prevention strategy in tropical Africa.
" The website further explains that in many cases alternative malaria control measures were judged to be more cost-effective that DDT spraying, and so were funded instead.

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