A year ago, Angola was not yet able to conduct laboratory testing on mosquitoes responsible for transmitting malaria throughout the country. Julio Estobre, a molecular biology laboratory technician at the Instituto Nacional de Investigação em Saúde (National Health Research Institute […]
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Madagascar Says No to Mosquito Breeding Sites in Rice Fields
Rice fields are an ideal breeding site for mosquitoes, who lay their eggs in the irrigated water. This is bad news for many farmers in Madagascar, whose livelihoods depend on rice cultivation. Farmers, along with other people living around the […]
Read MoreDe la collaboration avec PMI VectorLink à la conduite d’une campagne de pulvérisation intra domiciliaire
Lire cette histoire en anglais ici. Après quatre ans de collaboration avec l’Initiative Présidentielle des Etats Unis Contre le Paludisme (PMI) pour protéger les populations contre le paludisme dans trois districts sanitaires (Kampti, Kongoussi et Solenzo) au Burkina Faso, le […]
Read MoreFrom Working with PMI VectorLink to Leading an Indoor Residual Spraying Campaign
Read this story in French here. After four years working side-by-side with the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) to protect people against malaria in three health districts (Kampti, Kongoussi, and Solenzo) in Burkina Faso, the Permanent Secretariat for Malaria Elimination […]
Read MoreStrengthening Local Capacity for the Surveillance of Anopheles stephensi in Nigeria
Dr. Auwal Al-Hassan, a professor and entomologist at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Nigeria, spends his days teaching and researching insects that transmit disease and how to control them. His latest area of research focuses on the invasive malaria-transmitting mosquito […]
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