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Winners Announced for the Department of State/GLOBE IVSS Mosquito-related Projects Drawing

May 29, 2020

On Earth Day, in conjunction with the GLOBE IVSS drawing, the GLOBE Implementation Office (GIO) announced the six drawing winners selected from among the mosquito-related projects. There were 32 eligible projects (projects were included if they used the mosquito protocol in their research).

The winners were hand-selected by a team within GIO, based on a number of criteria, including how well the report was written, the amount of community interactions, and which mosquito species and related diseases were studied.

The winning Department of State Mosquito-Related IVSS projects were:

Africa: Benin: “Analyse Quantitative des Données de Mosquito Habitat Mapper en Afrique de L’oust” AND Nigeria: “The Spread of Biodiversity of Mosquitoes in Spussa Community, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria”
Asia and Pacific: Philippines: “Mosquito Breeding Site Characterization of Barangay Igang, Pototan, Philippines AND Thailand: “Mosquito Larvae Diversity and Abundance Relation to Land Cover in Coastal Area in Trang Province”
Latin America and Caribbean: Brazil: “Does the presence of reconstruction waste at school increase the incidence of mosquito larvae in capture traps?” AND Peru: “Alerta! Riesgo por Mosquitos en al Campus de la Universidad Nacional Agrarian la Molina, Peru”

Congratulations to all of the drawing winners!

To learn more about the GLOBE Zika Education and Prevention Project, click here.