Justina Victus Mosha, Transmission Zero stakeholder engagement officer, taking questions. As World Malaria Day (25 April 2026) approaches, there is a renewed call to strengthen malaria education for communities across Tanzania, where the disease continues to have far-reaching health, social, and economic impacts. More than 600,000 lives were lost to malaria in 2024, the majority among young children in Africa. According to the World Malaria Report 2025, Tanzania, along with Nigeria and the...

As the world marks International Women's Day on 8 March 2026, Transmission Zero researchers, Karen Nelwin Zablon and Beatrice Philip Magani, discuss the importance of young women in science. Beatrice Philip Magani, Ifakara Health Institute, performing a Direct Membrane Feeding Assay in the Tanzanian laboratory facilities. In the fight against malaria, lasting solutions are not built through a single breakthrough. They are built step by step, from early morning mosquito collections in rural...

As the world marks International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February 2026, two female Tanzanian scientists at Transmission Zero are showing that the future of science is not just about innovation - it is about listening. Felista Tarimo, Ifakara Health Institute (IHI), taking part in a demonstration collecting mosquitoes - Photo Credit: IHI Felista S. Tarimo from the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) and Justina Victus Mosha from the National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania...