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24/04/2024
An international training workshop on hematophagous flies was held in the Kruger National Park 8-12th of April 2024. Eleven participants and three trainers were hosted by the ARC-OVR and Skukuza Veterinary Office. Several tsetse traps were evaluated and the flies collected were used for training on identification
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24/04/2024
Kenyan Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Control Teams Strengthened Through Refresher Training at icipe. This training was carried out between March 18th to 22nd 2024, and is part of the 4th pillar of the COMBAT project concerning capacity building.
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17/04/2024
The Institut Senegalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA) has assessed the attractiveness of chemical compounds for gravid female tsetse flies in the field. This activity was carried out between October 28th 2023, and February 22nd 2024, and is part of the 1st pillar of the COMBAT project.
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09/02/2024
From January 15 to 26, 2024, the Centre International de Recherche-Développement sur l'Elevage en zone Subhumide (CIRDES) organized a training session on standard diagnostic techniques applied to African animal trypanosomoses (AAT), both in vertebrate hosts and vectors, for the benefit of the COMBAT project's French-speaking partners. This training is part of the activities of the 4th pillar "Capacities and commitment".
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09/10/2023
After 24 months of activities and implementation, the partners of COMBAT gather for the 2nd year progress meeting. The first results and achievements are presented. The perspectives, next steps, challenges and measures to meet project objectives are discussed. The three-day event takes place at the FAO headquarters in Rome.
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06/10/2023
The COMBAT Mozambican consortium member, the Biotechnology Center of UEM signed a formal collaboration agreement with BioForMoz (Support for Environmental Research AID 12089) funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. This aims at enhancing Gala experimental field station, established by COMBAT at Matutuíne, a buffer zone of the Maputo National Park, Mozambique, for tsetse flies and trypanosome research, to widen its scope into a research platform on infectious diseases and biodiversity.
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Combining experience between Combat partners for cross-border tsetse surveillance
01/09/2023
Surveillance for tsetse flies and Trypanosomosis inside the Kruger National Park was initiated in August 2023. Johan Esterhuizen and Moeti Taioe from The Agricultural Research Council (ARC, South Africa) and Luis Neves from the University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM, Mozambique), held successful meetings with the stakeholders responsible for disease surveillance inside Kruger Park. A field assessment along the south-eastern border of Kruger Park with Mozambique was done to assess potential habitat for surveillance traps.
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28/02/2023
Following the emergence of rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) in Ethiopia, a HAT control training for health professionals took place in Arba Minch. COMBAT partners IRD (France) and AHI (Ethiopia) were in charge of the practical laboratory training on diagnosis of HAT. This unique collaboration enabled to train health professionals in concentration techniques for trypanosome detection with live trypanosomes.
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14/02/2023
Denise Brito, PhD student at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and researcher at Eduardo Mondlane University (Maputo, Mozambique), received a training at UMR Intertryp in Montpellier, France on the genotyping of Glossina and population genetics. This training will allow her to genotype G. brevipalpis from two sites of Mozambique in order to determine if gene flows exist between these two populations in the frame of future development of vector control programs.
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17/08/2022
The COMBAT project is broad, and it includes a wide range of technical and scientific activities contributing to several sustainable development goals. Aiming to provide an overview of the project objectives and strategic framework, representatives from all participating institutions wrote an ‘open letter’. The document also describes the project’s pillars, the consortium of participating institutions and the project’s external network.
