FUNCCET
Fundación Canaria para el Control de las Enfermedades Tropicales
San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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Founded in 2013, FUNCCET is a foundation based in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain working on health, medical research, science & research +1 more.
FUNCCET is a non-profit foundation created in 2013 at the Universidad de La Laguna in Tenerife, Canary Islands. It promotes science and research on tropical, emerging and poverty-related diseases, covering prevention, control, diagnosis and public health. Its work includes invasive mosquito surveillance in the Canary Islands, a community vector-control project in Praia, Cape Verde, the CampusÁFRICA training programme, and research cooperation with African countries. Its governing bodies include a board (patronato) and a scientific committee. The foundation is linked to the Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y Salud Pública de Canarias (IUETSPC) and operates from the Universidad de La Laguna campus.
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CampusÁFRICA
Science & Research · Spain
Biennial training programme, organised with UNESCO and the Universidad de La Laguna, that promotes science for development and addresses African challenges.
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Health · Cape Verde
Community project using insecticidal paint to control disease-transmitting mosquitoes inside homes in vulnerable neighbourhoods of Praia.
Vigilancia de mosquitos invasores en Canarias
Health · Spain
Entomological surveillance of invasive disease-vector mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus across the Canary Islands, in cooperation with regional health authorities and island councils.
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Universidad de La Laguna, Cabildo de Tenerife, UNESCO, Gobierno de Canarias, Ayuntamiento de La Laguna, Fundación CajaCanarias, Obra Social La Caixa
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