US-Rwanda Planning Visit: Developing Research on Integrated Vector Control of Blood-Sucking Insects, July 2007

美国-卢旺达计划访问：开展吸血昆虫病媒综合控制研究，2007 年 7 月

• 批准号: 0739082
• 负责人: Richard Warner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0739082&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Rwanda; Planning; Visit; Developing

This award will facilitate the visit to Rwanda of a team of University of Illinois faculty members and a graduate student, led by Dr. Ibulaimu Kakoma, for the purpose of planning collaborative research. This collaboration holds great potential for the advancement of U.S. and Rwandan science, particularly in research on biodiversity and on the geographic patterns of insect vectors of disease. The visit coincides with an international scientific gathering, the First International Conference on Biodiversity and Natural Resources, sponsored by the Government of Rwanda. The planning visit team will meet with government officials, including the Minister of Science and Technology, with Rwandan university personnel, and also with community members from various occupations. The visiting team will focus especially on blood-sucking insects that act as vectors in the transmission of diseases. Such vector-borne diseases constitute the top 6 diseases designated by the United Nations. Africa is still extremely vulnerable to many preventable diseases, including vector-borne diseases. These diseases have both human public health impact in Africa and internationally and also economic significance at local, regional and global level. The collaboration is innovative in bringing together ecologists and geographic information systems (GIS) researchers to develop integrated vector control strategies through the identification, mapping and land use patterns of areas of sequestration of larval stages of mosquitoes. The techniques later will be adapted to other vectors such as tsetse flies and ticks.

该奖项将促进由Ibulaimu Kakoma博士领导的伊利诺伊大学教职员工和研究生团队访问卢旺达，以规划合作研究。这项合作为美国和卢旺达科学的进步，特别是在生物多样性和疾病昆虫媒介的地理模式研究方面，提供了巨大的潜力。这次访问恰逢卢旺达政府主办的国际科学聚会-第一届生物多样性和自然资源国际会议。 规划访问小组将会见包括科技部长在内的政府官员、卢旺达大学工作人员以及来自不同职业的社区成员。访问团将特别关注作为疾病传播媒介的吸血昆虫。这些病媒传播的疾病是联合国指定的6大疾病。非洲仍然极易受到许多可预防疾病的影响，包括病媒传染疾病。这些疾病在非洲和国际上对人类公共卫生产生影响，在地方、区域和全球各级也具有经济意义。这项合作具有创新性，它将生态学家和地理信息系统研究人员聚集在一起，通过确定、绘制和确定蚊子幼虫阶段隔离区的土地使用模式，制定综合病媒控制战略。这些技术以后将适用于其他媒介，如采采蝇和蜱。