Observed arrival · 2026-10-01
LLIMA Trial: Testing Livestock Ivermectin Against Malaria
A UKRI-MRC-funded study in Turkana, Kenya, is testing whether treating livestock with long-lasting ivermectin can reduce malaria-carrying mosquitoes and malaria cases.
- For
- Malaria researchers and pastoralist health teams
- Worth noticing
- Its four work packages connect human malaria outcomes, mosquito ecology, livestock systems, and social context.
Field notes
The site lays out four linked work packages rather than treating the intervention as a mosquito-only question: epidemiology, entomology, livestock systems, and social context inform one another. The epidemiology team plans community-based active case detection, while the entomology work tracks species, host choice, breeding sites, and pathogen infection. The homepage describes both a three-year follow-up and a four-year funded project, without clarifying how those periods fit together.
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