Last Updated: 09/12/2024
The East African Collaboration on Mosquito Push-Pull (EACoMoPP)
Objectives
This project aims to develop a tool that prevents 70% of mosquito bites (human landing catches) under near natural semi-field conditions.
The East African Collaboration on Mosquito Push-Pull (EACo MoPP) project aims to expand on the pilot field results collected in Ahero by the GCE Project. The work is being done on a proof of concept for odour-based push-pull systems to divert mosquitoes from biting people outdoors, one of the gaps for malaria control identified by WHO and major donors. The project activities started in May 2016 and are scheduled to run for 3 years. In this project work is done hand-in-hand with the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania and international partners from the Swiss TPH and Wageningen University. A large number of private sector collaborators are involved. To improve the capability to test the novel interventions and tools under near-natural conditions two large semi-field systems have been set up at ITOC. These are among the largest semi-field systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since completion of the systems in November 2016 several active ingredients released from a range of physical devices have been tested to find a way to push mosquitoes away from peri-domestic areas (spatial repellents) and to pull them towards odour-baited traps.
May 2015 — Jul 2018
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