As Africa marks Africa Month and reflects on the ambitions of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, malaria experts are calling for malaria elimination to be viewed not only as a public health challenge, but as a critical development priority that will shape the continent’s resilience and future growth. Despite decades of progress, malaria continues to place significant pressure on African economies, education systems, and healthcare infrastructure. According to the WHO World Malaria Report 2025,...

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...