"There has been, especially in agriculture, a lot of the use of genetically modified insects to control other insects. And so it's based on that notion that scientists like ourselves, like people at Imperial College and other groups, are thinking that we could potentially use a similar approach where we genetically modify mosquitoes so that we are hampering them in one way, so that when you release them into the general population, they affect the other mosquito populations in a way that [...] crashes the population," Dr. Ochomo explains.
"I think because it's a new intervention [...].To see how effective the intervention is especially in reducing the mosquito population and subsequently reducing the malaria burden. So I think in terms of the monitoring and evaluation, we need to streamline that. I think there is need also to, like I said, to have some social science studies that are looking at community acceptance and aligning the communications, especially to the community in relation to the GMO [mosquito]," Dr. Kibe notes.