Official consortium announcements, media coverage, peer-reviewed scientific papers, and open dataset publications.
The University of Glasgow is leading a new five-country network to track mosquitoes and the diseases they carry. Permanent monitoring stations will run across Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, and Madagascar.
Wits University has joined VectorGrid-Africa as the South African partner. Monitoring will cover four malaria-prone provinces, with all testing done locally at a new biosafety laboratory at the Wits BioHub.
The Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research covers the official start of VectorGrid-Africa, focusing on its One Health approach and how African scientists are being trained to carry out genomic analysis on-site.
Deploying real-time genomic sequencing directly to partner laboratories in Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, and Madagascar.
Okumu F, Finda M, Odero J. Existing entomological platforms across Africa can be strengthened to monitor gene-drive mosquitoes, without building parallel surveillance systems.
Africa's first interconnected network of permanent mosquito observatories officially launched under the EU Horizon Europe Global Health EDCTP3 programme to generate long-term data on vector populations, resistance, and climate drivers.
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