Burkina Faso ends Target Malaria, a GMO mosquito project funded by the Gates Foundation. The government cites biosafety risks, low impact, and scientific sovereignty in halting the program. The fight ...

Burkina Faso’s military government has suspended the controversial Target Malaria project, a Bill and Melinda Gates ...

Burkina Faso's military government under Ibrahim Traoré has ordered the immediate halt of an initiative backed by US ...

The Burkinabe government Friday announced the termination of all activities linked to the Target Malaria anti-malaria ...

Burkina Faso on Friday halted a project backed by US billionaire Bill Gates that had seen genetically modified mosquitoes ...

On World Mosquito Day, Target Malaria, a not-for-profit research consortium, has called for more investment in technology, ...

Scientists in Burkina Faso have deployed a new weapon in the fight against malaria, and waded into a thorny bioethics debate, by letting loose thousands of genetically sterilized mosquitoes. It ...

A malaria vaccine that has achieved efficacy of 77 per cent in children in Burkina Faso has become the first to meet the World Health Organization’s Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap target of ...

The team behind the "Faso Soap" project aims to create a cheap, accessible product to repel mosquitoes and protect people from a disease that claimed nearly 500,000 lives in 2015, most of them in ...

In the R21/Matrix-M trial in Burkina Faso, the 450 young children were divided into three groups. Two groups got three doses of the experimental vaccine along with either a low or a high dose of ...

Target Malaria, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is the latest NGO to come under pressure from the country's ...