At the on-going Third Conference of Parties to the Stockholm Convention (COP3) in Dakar, Senegal, attending delegations were surprised to learn that DDT production and use is again rising rapidly, despite a global agreement to restrict and eliminate it. Accordingly, members of the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) and the International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) called on the international community to re-commit to controlling malaria in Africa and elsewhere by effective means that do not require DDT.

Read the PAN_IPEN press release