Despite being preventable and treatable, malaria is estimated to have caused 438,000 deaths in 2015.
70% of these are children less than 5 years old.
This means a child dies
of malaria every 2 minutes.
Why Malaria Matters
Malaria: a Deadly Disease
Who We Are
Target Malaria is a not-for-profit research consortium that aims to develop and share technology for malaria control.
Target Malaria started as university-based research programme and has grown to include scientists, stakeholder engagement teams, risk assessment specialists and regulatory experts from Africa, North America and Europe.
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Our Work
Target Malaria is an innovative project aiming to reduce the population of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in sub-Saharan Africa. By reducing the population of malaria mosquitoes, we aim to reduce the transmission of the disease.
We are focused on reducing the number of female malaria mosquitoes. Only female mosquitoes bite and the number of productive females in a population will usually determine future population size.