By Mrs. Berthy Buah - Country Coordinator GLOBE Ghana Greater Accra Regional STMIE Coordinator The world Mosquito Day which is celebrated annually in honouring the scientist who first discovered that the female Anopheles mosquito transmit malaria in 1987-Sir Ronald Ross is being used to educate people on the causes effect and prevention of malaria and also used to raise funds for malaria related researches. In Ghana empirical evidence shows that a lot is been done by donors, researchers, NGOs, Media groups Public healthcare professionals, and concern Citizens by providing mosquito nets and creating awareness on malaria prevention basically in children and pregnant women. In spite of these interventions, it is still a challenge in reducing malaria prevalence in the country. GHANA EDUCATION SERVICE with the help of American Embassy-Ghana, log on to a programme called GLOBE( Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment).The Programme which has its implementation Office in USA and is being moderated by this Implementation Office and being sponsored by NASA, NSF, NOA and US Department of States has come up with an App called Mosquito Habitat Mapper as part of its protocols understudy by students, teachers and citizen scientists across the globe. The App has an inbuilt GPSS and Data entry site which could store large amount of data over long period of time. The App runs on android phones and with the help of digital microscope can help identify species of mosquito larvae which can serve as a good source of information as to which species of mosquito larvae and which kind of mosquito related diseases can be envisage in a particular community in the country since mosquito does not causes only malaria. It has come to a point where we need this type of technology to assist us as a country in our fight against the spread of mosquito borne diseases and it’s devastating effect on the economy and the citizenry.
