Wefco

Wefco Marketing International CC was registered as a company in the Republic of South Africa in 1989 and is a dedicated and focused public health business offering a wide range of pesticide technical grade materials, manufacturing concentrates and formulated products to the public health, veterinary and consumer markets.

In 2007 we expanded our business by developing and registering our own branded product range to combat nuisance and vector mosquitoes, flies, fleas, ticks, bedbugs, lice, cockroaches, ants, stored product insects, beetles, moths, rats, mice and other insect pests of public health and veterinary importance.

Governments, Local Authorities, Public Health and Animal Health practitioners together with professional Pest Control companies require an armoury of products to effectively break insect life cycles and control or eradicate insect and rodent infestations.

We are continuously striving to identify new pesticide active ingredients, develop new pesticide products and formulations that are technically sound and stable whilst being committed to the safety of people, animals, property and the environment.

With the rapid increase in the incidents of insect- and tick-borne diseases globally, with malaria, dengue, mosquito-transmitted arboviruses, tick-borne Lyme disease and many others contributing to annual death tolls in the millions, Public Health professionals need to be vigilant and responsive.

Although insect-borne infections are more or less under control in the developed regions of the world, sudden outbreaks of diseases always exist and occur with surprising frequency.

Malaria is one example where the insect vector remains and with the threat of global warming could again become endemic.

On the African continent we have our own serious public health problems partly due to the continued threat to the population by insect vectors, poor sanitation and water supplies compounded by economic problems.

Public health insects and other pests found in and around human habitation can contribute to the transmission of disease and should be identified and controlled before the challenge and the pool of infection becomes a problem.

Vector-borne diseases cause suffering, disability and death and are a drain on already stressed country resources.

If we are to be successful in controlling or eradicating these diseases we will require the use of multiple interventions which must be integrated into a well planned management programme. An Integrated Pest Management Programme (IPM) must include Pesticide Resistance Management (PRM) when chemical control methods are employed in order to ensure an effective, sustainable operation and extend the life of the pesticide molecules for as long as possible.