Field site in Mambene, northern KwaZulu-Natal Province
2014 Community engagement and vector surveillance initiated
2018 First trial initiated
2022 The team at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, are now able to mass rear a transgenic sexing strain and they plan to use it for the SIT programme. This strain allows the team to select only male in the breeding of SIT mosquitos.
Tags:Africa, Anopheles, Sterile insect technique (SIT)
G. Munhenga, B. D. Brooke, T. F. Chirwa, R. H. Hunt, M. Coetzee, D. Govender and L. L. Koekemoer,
Parasites and Vectors,
4:208.
2011.
The successful suppression of a target insect population using the sterile insect technique (SIT) partly depends on the premise that the laboratory insects used for mass rearing are genetically compatible with the target population, that the mating competitiveness of laboratory ...
Tags:Africa, Anopheles, Genetically modified mosquitoes, Sterile insect technique (SIT)
G. Munhenga, B. D. Brooke, J. R. L. Gilles, K. Slabbert, A. Kemp, L. C. Dandalo, O. R. Wood, L. N. Lobb, D. Govender, M. Renke and L. L. Koekemoer,
Parasites and Vectors,
9:122.
2016.
Anopheles arabiensis Patton is primarily responsible for malaria transmission in South Africa after successful suppression of other major vector species using indoor spraying of residual insecticides. Control of An. arabiensis using current insecticide based approaches is proving ...
Tags:Africa, Anopheles, Malaria, Sterile insect technique (SIT)
Anonymous,
SA Department of Science and Innovation,
2018.
The first South African research trial for the biological control of mosquitoes using the sterile insect technique started in Jozini in KwaZulu-Natal earlier this month, with funding from the Department of Science and Technology. South Africa is making significant progress in ...
Tags:Africa, Anopheles, Stakeholder engagement, Sterile insect technique (SIT)
P. N. Manana, J. Zikhali, D. Dlamini, S. Gumede, N. Mabaso, T. Mpungose and G. Munhenga,
Journal of Public Health and Disease Prevention,
2.
2019.
Approximately 165 000 listeners were engaged during two 30 minute radio interviews at a local radio station. Two hundred and fifty farm workers, several outpatients from primary health care facilities and 1400 secondary school pupils were given education on malaria transmission ...