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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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Our top recommendations D.E.L.I.V.E.R.

Based on recent research, key recommendations are made for reducing the threat of mosquito-transmitted diseases through changes to the built environment.

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

Upcoming Events

Useful resources

01 March 2021

Household finished flooring and soil-transmitted helminth and Giardia infections among children in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: a prospective cohort study

Jade Benjamin-Chung, Yoshika S Crider, Andrew Mertens, Ayse Ercumen, Amy J Pickering, Audrie Lin, Lauren Steinbaum, Jenna Swarthout, Mahbubur Rahman, Sarker M Parvez, Rashidul Haque, Sammy M Njenga, Jimmy Kihara, Clair Null, Stephen P Luby, John M Colford Jr, Benjamin F Arnold

The Lancer Global Health

Peer-reviewed article

17.02.21

Assessing the health benefits of development interventions

BMJ Global Health

Peer-reviewed article

05.02.21

Anopheles stephensi Mosquitoes as Vectors of Plasmodium vivax and falciparum, Horn of Africa, 2019

Emerg Infect Dis.

Peer-reviewed article

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WHO is seeking a short-term consultant to assist with development of a Framework for National Vector Surveillance and Control Plans for the Pacific. Expressions of Interest are due by 12 March 2021 Further details : https://t.co/h2KtGUEyCL

21 hours 20 min ago

Vector Surveillance 101: a MasterClass with Profs. Tom Burkot & Tanya Russell https://t.co/GpbHBHM3ip

3 days 2 hours ago

Global Shelter Cluster (GSC) @ShelterCluster has received a USD 2 million grant from @USAID, to continue implementing key aspects of the GSC Strategy 2018-2022 The deadline for applications has been extended to CoB 24 February 2021 https://t.co/WKcG29CZ4r

5 days 21 hours ago

Exciting new PhD Studentship - Characterising inequalities in multi-dimensional neighbourhood environment in Accra, Ghana https://t.co/ryL5Q9ECfD

5 days 22 hours ago

All Party Parliamentary Group meeting with the Directors of @WHO, @FAO and @OIEAnimalHealth, alongside the Government of Rwanda and the two of the world’s foremost experts on #rabies Professor Sarah Cleaveland and Professor Tony Fooks. https://t.co/T6A5i3CX8X

1 week 1 hour ago

Development interventions (such as improved housing, water and sanitation) are critically needed in addition to biomedical interventions, please share widely - Assessing the health benefits of development interventions https://t.co/VRysNB7rex

1 week 1 day ago

Event: Keystone e-Symposium “Malaria in the Era of COVID-19” https://t.co/GA0ZqtiOmI

1 week 1 day ago

RT @womeninmalaria: Thrilled to announce the 1ST Women In Malaria conference to be held 22-24th March 2021 with an amazing line-up of speakershttps://t.co/RxZ3xbU3Bd Registration (open to everyone)https://t.co/NP2JZgOh6t Abstract submission (only #womeninmalaria) https://t.co/deTS65apjY RT https://t.co/h30ntcbr5y

1 week 2 days ago

The Mosquitoes Have Refused to Die: A MasterClass with Prof. Charles Wondji #LSTM Hosted by @Fredros_Inc @ifakarahealth Wed Feb 17, 2021 3pm - 5.30pm (EAT) You can register here - https://t.co/3YG7F2oQwu

1 week 3 days ago

How can we tackle the global threat of #COVID19 without neglecting the fight against #malaria? The "Malaria in the Era of COVID-19" symposia will address this and other questions on March 16-17. Register now! https://t.co/bwgTlA9VuS

1 week 3 days ago

Vector Control Products Quality Assurance Consultant - https://t.co/YbmpxPLkXh

2 weeks 21 hours ago

Nigeria Joins Forces with World Economic Forum to Fight Plastic Pollution https://t.co/e9KIFIQI2o via @MDiplomacyWORLD

2 weeks 2 days ago

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Our top recommendations D.E.L.I.V.E.R.

About

The problem

Who are we

What we do

Upcoming Events

Useful resources

Household finished flooring and soil-transmitted helminth and Giardia infections among children in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: a prospective cohort study

Assessing the health benefits of development interventions

Anopheles stephensi Mosquitoes as Vectors of Plasmodium vivax and falciparum, Horn of Africa, 2019

@bovanetwork on twitter

Partners

Durham University

University College London

UN HABITAT

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

University of Oxford

New Partnership for Africa's Development

Imperial College London

In2Care

Development Workshop

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine

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First BOVA Network newsletter for 2021

World NTD Day 30 January 2021

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