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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

Health Organization guidelines were distributed to
participants. This type of feedback was found to be
useful in changing the common mistakes in which
indoor spraying was conducted.
Information sessions on malaria and its control was
also held for schools in the Durban areas. Workplace
training sessions were provided to Grade 11 students
from schools in Durban. These students approached
the group to engage with our laboratory staff to
work in the insectary and to collect mosquitoes
around their homes. This created an awareness of
vector mosquitoes and nuisance mosquitoes.
In celebration of 30 years of Field work to collect mosquitoes for research.
democracy in South Africa

The Malaria Research Group is committed to
continue providing high-level research to support
South Africa's malaria elimination goal. We dedicate
our efforts to finding safe, innovative tools that would
not only eliminate malaria in South Africa but across
southern Africa. It is imperative that the various
government departments such as health; border
security and human settlements, work together to
combat the disease. Parasites and vectors easily
cross international borders and control interventions
should not stop at borders. Despite the many
challenges, the MRG calls upon all governments in
southern Africa to strengthen collaborative efforts
and share resources so that cross-border malaria
is reduced and can eventually be eliminated. The
disease affects the poor rural communities in the
country who can least afford health care.

Through its research projects, the MRG is ensuring
that malaria morbidity is reduced at the source in
high malaria endemic countries so that it eliminates
malaria in province such as KwaZulu-Natal through Mosquito light traps used in field work.
a down-streaming effect. Malaria is a disease that
is preventable and easily treatable, and no one
should die of malaria. The Malaria Research Groups
commitment is to ensure that no person should die
of malaria and that the disease should be eliminated
by 2028.

MRG staff actively engaged in field collection
of mosquitoes for research.

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