Project Lead(s): Fredros Okumu
On July 13, 2011 Grand Challenges Canada announced a grant to support further development of a new innovative device to attract and kill mosquitoes that can transmit malaria. Developed by Dr. Fredros Okumu (Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania), the device is placed outside the home and is the outdoor complement to bed nets and sprays which protect people from infection in their homes.
This project was funded through Grand Challenges Canada’s Co-Funded Phase II GCE program, which aims to support innovation in low- and middle-income countries by co-funding Phase II grantees selected by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations’ Grand Challenges Explorations program.