{"id":52070,"date":"2023-07-05T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T22:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/malaria-control-research-centre-opens-in-kampala"},"modified":"2023-07-05T23:35:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:35:26","slug":"malaria-control-research-centre-opens-in-kampala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/malaria-control-research-centre-opens-in-kampala","title":{"rendered":"Malaria Control Research Centre Opens in Kampala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Gudie Leisure Farm, a social agribusiness enterprise under its programme dubbed \u2018Gudie Health plans\u2019 has launched a laboratory that will help conduct more research on malaria control and prevention using organic mosquito repellants.<\/p>\n<p>The laboratory is based in Najjera, a Kampala suburb.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Gudie Health plans\u2019 aims to control mosquitoes and the malaria burden in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Head of Plans Prof. Robert Basaza, the center has been doing research to prevent malaria and has managed to come up with the organic mosquito repellants that help to prevent mosquito bites in humans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get mosquitoes from our Laboratory which have no malaria. We test them on a human being who has smeared our repellant to see and find [out] how long it takes for that mosquito to bite. After seven hours we kill those mosquitoes not to go out of the Laboratory and bite other people,\u2019\u2019 Prof. Basaza said while interacting with journalists during the West Nile Region Business Symposium held on July 3 in Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Basaza said the product has gone through all necessary testing for seven years awaiting licensing.<\/p>\n<p>He said the laboratory will not only make mosquitoes repellants but also contribute to innovative research to reduce the malaria burden in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Emmanuel Otieno, one of the researchers, said that the laboratory has been set up to provide essential health care to Ugandans alongside government\u2019s public health programmes.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cGudie Health plans\u2019 intends to establish a paradigm shift in the healthcare sector for the low income earners who cannot afford the cost of private health services in this country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Gudie Leisure Farm, a social agribusiness enterprise under its programme dubbed \u2018Gudie Health plans\u2019 has launched a laboratory that will help conduct more research on malaria control and prevention using organic mosquito repellants. The laboratory is based in Najjera, a Kampala suburb. \u2018Gudie Health plans\u2019 aims to control mosquitoes and the malaria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":52069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-52070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malaria Control Research Centre Opens in Kampala - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gudie Leisure Farm, a social agribusiness enterprise under its programme dubbed \u2018Gudie Health plans\u2019 has launched a labo ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/malaria-control-research-centre-opens-in-kampala\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malaria Control Research Centre Opens in Kampala\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gudie Leisure Farm, a social agribusiness enterprise under its programme dubbed \u2018Gudie Health plans\u2019 has launched a labo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/malaria-control-research-centre-opens-in-kampala\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-05T22:15:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-05T23:35:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/07\/sm_1688583776.607881.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"479\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/malaria-control-research-centre-opens-in-kampala#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/malaria-control-research-centre-opens-in-kampala\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Malaria Control Research Centre Opens in Kampala\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-05T22:15:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-05T23:35:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/malaria-control-research-centre-opens-in-kampala\"},\"wordCount\":285,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/malaria-control-research-centre-opens-in-kampala#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/07\/sm_1688583776.607881.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/malaria-control-research-centre-opens-in-kampala#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/malaria-control-research-centre-opens-in-kampala\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/malaria-control-research-centre-opens-in-kampala\",\"name\":\"Malaria Control Research Centre Opens in Kampala - 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