Learning Outcomes

When you have studied this session, you should be able to:

• Define and use correctly all of the key words printed in bold.
• Describe the burden of malaria globally and in Africa.
• Describe the life cycle of the malaria parasite.
• Describe the life cycle of the mosquito vector.
• Explain how to identify the potential vector of malaria and tell it from other mosquitoes.
• Describe the behaviour of vector mosquitoes.