Innovative thinking on how to prevent malaria

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Malaria elimination will not be possible in many settings with the current available tools. Vector control, our most effective strategy, is now challenged by widespread insecticide resistance and mosquitoes that avoid insecticides in bednets and sprayed indoors by biting outdoors, feeding upon animals or changing their biting times.

The BOHEMIA project, funded by Unitaid, will develop an innovative strategy to complement the existing tools: administer ivermectin (a mosquito-killing drug) to humans and livestock to reduce malaria transmission.

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Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug that kills mosquitoes feeding on treated subjects. Mass drug administration of ivermectin to humans and/or livestock tackles residual malaria transmission.

It targets mosquitoes that feed on treated humans regardless of the place and time of biting, as well as mosquitoes that feed partly on livestock and are not routinely exposed to insecticide within the home.

The time has come to
bite them back

Let’s introduce
our work

Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug that kills mosquitoes feeding on treated subjects. Mass drug administration of ivermectin to humans and/or livestock tackles residual malaria transmission.

It targets mosquitoes that feed on treated humans regardless of the place and time of biting, as well as mosquitoes that feed partly on livestock and are not routinely exposed to insecticide within the home.

The time has come to bite them back

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Khadija Nuru and Karisa Kahindi Kazungu

Taking note of cultural cues to set the stage for a malaria trial

Khadija Nuru and Kahindi Kazungu, Assistant Research Officers of the BOHEMIA project share their experiences of conducting ethnographic research to inform the malaria trial Written by Murchana ...
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BOHEMIA implementation team receives training ahead of the malaria trial

BOHEMIA implementation team receives training ahead of the malaria trial

242 field staff complete comprehensive training to visit households participating in the MDA in Kenya’s Kwale County The BOHEMIA project recently concluded an 11-day training for ...
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Mary Mael

“Ivermectin for malaria strategy is an innovative, new, and bold way of approaching vector control”

Interview with Mary Mael, Project Manager, BOHEMIA As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Were you already attracted to the ...
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