Can Uganda use 'friendly mosquitoes' to eradicate malaria?
26th March 2024
A 2021 study by Target Malaria, an international non-profit research consortium that works to develop, assess risks and engage communities for a gene drive solution in Africa indicated that gene drive mosquitoes successfully control mosquito populations in large cages.
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Several Ugandan entomologists and molecular geneticists concur that the Anopheles funestus mosquito has emerged as a threat to the success of the country’s insecticide-based malaria vector control programmes. (File photo)
