Node-level interventions

Node-level interventions determine what will be distributed to nodes to reduce the spread of a disease. For example, spraying larvicide in a village to kill mosquito larvae is a node-level malaria intervention. Sometimes this can be an intermediate intervention that schedules another intervention. Node-level disease outbreaks are also configured as “interventions”. In the schema, these are labeled as NodeTargeted.

It is also possible (but not required) to configure why a particular intervention is distributed by adding trigger conditions to the intervention. For example, interventions can be triggered by notifications broadcast after some an event, such as Births, NewInfectionEvent, and more. It’s also possible to have one intervention trigger another intervention by asking the first intervention to broadcast a unique string, and having the second intervention be triggered upon receipt of that string. See Event list.

The following node-level interventions are available for use with the malaria simulation type.

Vector control

The following node-level interventions are commonly used for vector control in malaria simulations.

Toggle parameter table

Intervention	Target life stage	Target biting preference	Target biting location	Effect
AnimalFeedKill	node	feeding cycle	animal	killing
ArtificialDiet	feeding cycle	human	all	blocking
InsectKillingFence	feeding cycle	all	all	killing
Larvicides	larva	all	all	killing, reduction
MosquitoRelease
OutdoorRestKill	feeding cycle	human	outdoor	killing
OvipositionTrap	feeding cycle	all	all	killing
ScaleLarvalHabitat	larva	all	all	reduction
SpaceSpraying	feeding cycle	human	outdoor	killing
SpatialRepellent	feeding cycle	all	outdoor	blocking
SugarTrap	adults	all	all	killing

• AnimalFeedKill
• ArtificialDiet
• BirthTriggeredIV
• ImportPressure
• InputEIR
• InsectKillingFence
• Larvicides
• MalariaChallenge
• MigrateFamily
• MosquitoRelease
• MultiNodeInterventionDistributor
• NodeLevelHealthTriggeredIV
• NodeLevelHealthTriggeredIVScaleUpSwitch
• NodePropertyValueChanger
• Outbreak
• OutdoorRestKill
• OvipositionTrap
• ScaleLarvalHabitat
• SpaceSpraying
• SpatialRepellent
• SugarTrap