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Gates-funded Oxitec 'Friendly' mosquitoes scaled up in Djibouti to fight urban malaria
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Djibouti and the British biotech firm Oxitec — whose genetic mosquito technology is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — marked the opening of a mosquito-production facility on November 5, 2025, scaling up releases of 'Friendly' Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes against a surge in urban malaria. The engineered male mosquitoes do not bite or transmit disease and carry a gene that prevents female offspring from surviving, gradually suppressing the invasive, malaria-spreading Anopheles stephensi population first detected in Djibouti in 2012. The program — a partnership between Djibouti's National Malaria Control Program, the nonprofit Association Mutualis, and Oxitec — had conducted East Africa's first GM-mosquito release in May 2024. National malaria cases had risen from hundreds to tens of thousands a year as the invasive mosquito spread.
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