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Articles on Vector control

August 18, 2023

How genetically modifying mosquitoes could strengthen the world’s war on malaria

Shüné Oliver, National Institute for Communicable Diseases and Jaishree Raman, National Institute for Communicable Diseases

Methods that don’t rely on insecticides are needed to bolster the fight against mosquito-borne diseases.

May 16, 2021

António Benjamim Mapossa, University of Pretoria

This project may help to eradicate malaria by developing new technologies to prevent mosquitoes from biting people when they are outdoors.

May 29, 2019

Tiaan de Jager, University of Pretoria and Taneshka Kruger, University of Pretoria

Progress against malaria has stalled. There’s been an increase in the number of cases reported since 2015.

April 11, 2018

Eunice Anyango Owino, University of Nairobi

Kenya must establish policies to tackle dengue fever and chikungunya, like it did for malaria.

Taneshka Kruger
UP ISMC: Project Manager and Coordinator, University of Pretoria
Eunice Anyango Owino
Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
Tiaan de Jager
Dean: Faculty of Health Sciences and Director: UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria
António Benjamim Mapossa
Postdoctoral fellow in UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC), University of Pretoria
Shüné Oliver
Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Jaishree Raman
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases