The Government of Djibouti has made a historic move in the fight against malaria by launching the first pilot releases of Oxitec's Friendly™ mosquitoes on African soil.
According to Oxitec, this marks a significant milestone for the Djibouti Friendly™ Mosquito Program, a public-private partnership.
This initiative aims to control the Anopheles stephensi mosquito, which is responsible for the significant increase in urban malaria cases in Djibouti's capital city, which has a population of over 1 million and is located in the Horn of Africa.
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