The 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH). Wednesday, November 20, 2019 – Sunday, November 24, 2019 The ASTMH Annual Meeting draws tropical medicine and global health professionals representing academia, government, non-profits, philanthropy, NGOs, […]
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Engaging Women in Vector Control
Engaging Women in Vector Control – Virtual Keystone Symposia. On October 1, 2019, The PMI VectorLink Project participated in a live virtual event in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, covering the topic of Engaging Women in Vector Control. The event highlighted […]
Read MoreBuilding Capacity One Insectary at a Time
The PMI VectorLink Project Helps Establish Sierra Leone’s First Vector-Borne Disease Insectary and Laboratory. In the West African country of Sierra Leone, 100 percent of the population is at risk of contracting malaria. Despite the country’s incredible progress in reducing […]
Read MoreClosing the Entomology Gap in Zambia
PMI VectorLink Trains Government on Morphological Identification of Anopheles Vectors. The PMI VectorLink Project recently conducted a one-week training for Zambia’s government environmental health technicians (EHTs) in entomological monitoring and morphological identification of Anopheles mosquitoes, the vector which carries the […]
Read MorePMI VectorLink Protects the Most Vulnerable from Malaria
Malaria is the deadliest disease in Malawi, killing an average of 8 people a day, and sickening thousands more every year. For those with HIV and compromised immune systems, the disease is extremely dangerous. In 2018, the U.S. President’s Malaria […]
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