AREF Fellowship Award: Building Metagenomics, Bioinformatics, and Leadership Capacity for Identifying Viral Etiology of Acute Fever Infection in Cameroon

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This fellowship project, awarded to Dr. Frédy Brice Nemg Simo, post-doctoral researcher at CRID, addresses the critical public health challenge of non-malarial and non-typhoid Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) in Cameroon. AFI is simply a sudden fever whose cause is not malaria or typhoid, often remaining unexplained because of limited diagnostic capacity. Cases of AFI have…

AREF Fellowship Award: Building Capacity for Transgenic Drosophila to Validate Mosquito Insecticide Resistance Genes in Cameroon

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This fellowship project is awarded to Dr. Mersimine Kouamo, working on functional validation of the role of mosquito’s insecticide resistance in malaria vector. She is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID) under the African Centre for Vector Genomics (AVecGen) project which aims to establish Africa’s premier centre of excellence…

Publication: Dr Ambrose Oruni releases a paper on “Chlorfenapyr bednets effectively overcome pyrethroid resistance escalation in highly resistant Anopheles malaria vectors in Uganda”

News

In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, malaria mosquitoes have become resistant to pyrethroids, the insecticides used for decades on standard bed nets. This resistance makes malaria harder to control. This study, published in Scientific Reports in January 2026, evaluated newly introduced Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) with different modes of action. Researchers conducted Uganda’s first experimental hut trials:…