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FAO and the International Atomic Energy Agency Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory in Austria should be approached on the eradication exercise if at all the sterile insect technique would be used to supplement the current trapping method. In the former, experts at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) should be fully involved. Sterile insect technique involves mass breeding of huge quantities of targeted insects in a laboratory where males get sterilised by experts then expose them to an overdose of radiation and later release them by air over an infected area. These do the damage on females. The proportion… Read more »
for your information, there are no Trypanosomiasis experts at LUANAR, the experts ‘re at the College of Medicine they have a highly specialized trypanosomiasis research laboratory. I think it’s high time Africa stop the syndrome of waiting for western organizations to initiate programs when we have all the expertise to do it ourselves. Why involve an organization that is in Australia when in Burkina Faso they’ve all the genetically engineered flies as well, why not just collaborate with them? ( http://www.cirdes.org)
African problem must be solved by Africans, we have all it takes to solve our problems.
Sad tat LUANAR does not have experts in such a field. Very likely that Burkina Faso sought help from the organ of the United Nations, FAO and IAEA in Austria NOT Australia in order to set up a laboratory. However, Malawi can turn to the one in Tanzania for a ground work. Indeed an African problem ought to be solved by Africans. But no continent is an island in such matters.