Rwanda Leads Africa in Drone Technology For Fighting Malaria Rwanda Malawi Mozambique
first country in Africa to integrate and deploy dronesIn 2019, the government partnered with Charis Unmanned Aerial Solutions to introduce an innovative approach to tackle the increasing malaria cases due to changes in Anopheles mosquito behaviors toward outdoor biting, and scaling-up of irrigation agriculture.
Eric Rutayisire, Founder and CEO of Charis UAS, explained that the firm collaborated with the Rwanda Biomedical Centre to develop a protocol on how to use drones and advanced 3D geospatial data, as an effective tool to tackle the rise of malaria cases in Africa. The project's success has led to its expansion in 2023, with Charis UAS scaling up its activities in Rugende and Kabuye, two communities heavily impacted by malaria. Drones are now being used to map mosquito breeding sites, allowing for targeted interventions.to inoculate more than 400,000 children against the mosquito-borne disease. Health officials say malaria kills more than 12,000 Kenyans each year and more than half a million people in sub-Saharan Africa, most of them children.
In a world still grappling with malaria elimination, Rwanda was the first country to integrate and deploy drones in the most malaria endemic zones of the country for an accelerated…
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