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Community engagement: Why collaborate with an entomological study?

Posted 22nd June 2020 by Léa Paré Toé, PhD

At Target Malaria, the principle of co-development guides our work. Local communities do have a voice. They play a vital role in the development of our processes and research activities.…

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Target Malaria Ghana: Unlocking DNA and Ecosystem Knowledge

Posted 25th May 2020 by Dr Fred Aboagye-Antwi

Target Malaria started its work in Ghana in 2018, in partnership with the University of Ghana, Legon. Different from other African countries where Target Malaria is present, Target Malaria Ghana…

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Target Malaria scientists create a genetically modified mosquito to produce male-only progeny that effectively reduces the population of malaria mosquitoes in the lab at Imperial College

Posted 11th May 2020 by Dr  Alekos  Simoni

Controlling mosquitoes is a vital part of any integrated strategy to fight malaria. Target Malaria team at the laboratory of Professor Andrea Crisanti at Imperial College London has been working…

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World Malaria Day 2020: Our Champions

Posted 24th April 2020

To celebrate World Malaria Day, we would like to share with you the profiles of Target Malaria’s champions: our project’s Principal Investigators in the countries and at the global level.Each…

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World Malaria Day 2020: Our Countries

Posted 24th April 2020

The global theme for World Malaria Day, ‘Zero Malaria Starts with Me’, emphasizes everyone’s power and responsibility to ensure no one dies from a mosquito bite. The theme is inspired…

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Health workers, thank you for making the difference

Posted 7th April 2020 by Dr. Charles Guissou, MD, MPH

Every April 7, we celebrate World Health Day, which marks the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO). This date has been used to raise awareness of serious health issues…

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COVID-19: We are here for you

Posted 27th March 2020 by Karen E Logan, PHD

The COVID-19 pandemic has now reached almost every corner of the world, and that includes the Target Malaria network of partners, or family as I prefer to think of them.…

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Target Malaria Burkina Faso receives the prestigious 2019 Newcomb Cleveland Prize at the AAAS

Posted 20th March 2020 by Raymond J. Monnat, Jr. M.D.

Join us in congratulating Target Malaria team member and Burkina Faso Principal Investigator Dr Abdoulaye Diabaté and his team of eight researchers based in the United States and Burkina Faso…

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My Interview on Target Malaria in Italian

Posted 9th March 2020 by Federica Bernardini, PHD

A couple of months ago I was contacted by Luca Pellegrino, a young journalist from Scientificast, an Italian scientific network that has the mission to divulgate science in a way…

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The ecology unit at Polo GGB: rearing modified mosquitoes in large cages

Posted 20th February 2020 by Dr Alekos Simoni

It is nearly five o’clock in the evening when the bright lights in the ceiling are dimming, while an orangish light is appearing from the back end of the room,…

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