STRESS is an MRC-funded project based in the Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve in northern Malawi bringing together experts in tsetse fly and trypanosome biology from Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, the University of Glasgow and LSTM.
Our vision
To produce an evidence-based tsetse control programme that reduces the risk of Rhodesian sleeping sickness in the local communities surrounding the Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve.
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Project lead is Dr Chris Jones.
Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve forms part of the 30,000 km2 Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area in northern Malawi. The Reserve is home to a diverse wildlife including the largest population of elephants in north Malawi. It is also currently where the largest proportion of Rhodesian sleeping sickness cases are reported in Africa.