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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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Learn more about opportunities for pump-prime research funding, meeting attendance and travel grants available through the network

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

25.01.21

Insecticide-treated house screening protects against Zika-infected Aedes aegypti in Merida, Mexico

PLoS Negl Trop Dis

Peer-reviewed article

18.01.21

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020

United Nations

Report

05.01.21

Recommendations for building out mosquito-transmitted diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: the DELIVER mnemonic

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

Peer-reviewed article

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Opportunities

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

About

The problem

Who are we

What we do

Upcoming Events

Useful resources

Insecticide-treated house screening protects against Zika-infected Aedes aegypti in Merida, Mexico

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020

Recommendations for building out mosquito-transmitted diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: the DELIVER mnemonic

@bovanetwork on twitter

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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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