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Building out vector-borne diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: an interdisciplinary network focusing on preventing vector-borne diseases through improving the built environment

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About

The problem

What is the burden of vector-borne diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and how are they linked to the built environment?

Who are we

The BOVA network is co-led by network Directors Professor Steve Lindsay and Professor Mike Davies, and supported by a network Management Board

What we do

The BOVA network aims to create an inter-disciplinary network of researchers in the built environment and vector-borne diseases in sub-Saharan Africa

Useful resources

7 June 2018

Housing and Health: An overview of the literature

Health Affairs

Peer-reviewed article

20 September 2018

Revisiting an old idea: engineering against vector-borne diseases

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

Peer-reviewed article

June 2012

Going Green , A Handbook of Sustainable Housing Practices in Developing Countries

UN-Habitat

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@bovanetwork on twitter

Network seeks to build better in bid to fight diseases in urban settlements – UN-Habitat https://t.co/v4FIy5Dv5n

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Bamboo taking root in Africa https://t.co/eUqFcYbnGt

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Bamboo: Africa’s untapped potential https://t.co/0aG4XRozQ7

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RT @drannewilson: Mucking about with the KaribUNi sign at @UNHABITAT Nairobi. Great discussions at the @BovaNetwork Network & Managem… https://t.co/AaGNXPHaYr

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Thanks for your contributions! https://t.co/PmBzt9WGFj

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Day 2 of our Second BOVA Open Network meeting at @UNHABITAT intense discussions to develop future research ideas. https://t.co/nYIvoJnOlK

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Ceri-Wyn Thomas @GCRF funders of @BovaNetwork telling us about potential new funding opportunities - keep checking… https://t.co/AEBrl6y3s0

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RT @UNHABITAT: #DYK that we can have healthy cities? 150 delegates meet in #Nairobi, 4-5 April 2019 to discuss how to make cities… https://t.co/iCOEtFpPAh

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