It's #WorldMalariaDay

#Malaria took over 600k lives last year, and in Africa, nearly 80% of those deaths were children under 5

Insecticide resistance & climate chance may make malaria more challenging to eradicate

🧵 on what Imperial College London researchers are doing about it:

Interdisciplinary researchers from across our four Faculties collaborate with policymakers and local communities that carry the highest #malaria burden

This interactive feature tackles 8 innovative ways Imperial is fighting malaria 🔽
imperial.ac.uk/stories/world-…

Target Malaria, funded by Gates Foundation, is one of the key research collaborations at Imperial. It uses novel #gene technologies to eradicate malaria

We speak to research technician Lee Phillimore about what goes on BTS at Imperial's mosquito labs 🩸
imperial.ac.uk/news/245720/qa…

Imperial is also home to Transmission Zero (transmissionzero), a collaboration between our researchers and our partners in Tanzania 🇹🇿

It focuses on modifying mosquitos so they're no longer able to transmit malaria – and it's recently made big strides 👇
imperial.ac.uk/news/249474/mo…