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Correction to: Addressing key gaps in implementation of mosquito larviciding to accelerate malaria vector control in southern Tanzania: results of a stakeholder engagement process in local district councils

Malaria Journal volume 20, Article number: 258 (2021) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 02 March 2021

Correction to: Malar J (2021) 20:123 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03661-x

Following publication of the original article [1], it was brought to our attention that the article had published with an incorrect Funding declaration.

The declaration has been corrected in the published article and may be seen below:

“This work was supported by the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA), awarded to MFF. CARTA is jointly led by the African Population and Health Research Center and the University of the Witwatersrand and funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (Grant No: G-19-57145), Sida (Grant No: 54100113), Uppsala Monitoring Centre and the DELTAS Africa Initiative (Grant No: 107768/Z/15/Z). The DELTAS Africa Initiative is an independent funding scheme of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS)’s Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) and supported by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development Planning and Coordinating Agency (NEPAD Agency) with funding from the Wellcome Trust (UK) and the UK government. The statements made and views expressed are solely the responsibility of the Fellow. This work was also supported by the Wellcome trust International Masters Fellowship in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Grant No: 212633/Z/18/Z), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Grant Number: OPP1177156), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Grant Number: OPP1099295) and by Application of Novel Transgenic technology & Inherited Symbionts to Vector Control (ANTI-VeC) (Grant Number: AVPP0027/1), all awarded to Ifakara Health Institute.”

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  1. Mapua SA, Finda MF, Nambunga IH, Msugupakulya BJ, Ukio K, Chaki PP, Tripet F, Kelly AH, Christofdes N, Lezaun J, Okumu FO. Addressing key gaps in implementation of mosquito larviciding to accelerate malaria vector control in southern Tanzania: results of a stakeholder engagement process in local district councils. Malar J. 2021;20:123. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03661-x.

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  1. Salum A. Mapua and Marceline F. Finda contributed equally to this work

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  1. Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, P. O. Box 53, Morogoro, Tanzania

    Salum A. Mapua, Marceline F. Finda, Ismail H. Nambunga, Betwel J. Msugupakulya, Prosper P. Chaki & Fredros O. Okumu

  2. School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Marceline F. Finda, Nicola Christofdes & Fredros O. Okumu

  3. School of Life Science and Bioengineering, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, P. O. Box 447, Arusha, Tanzania

    Betwel J. Msugupakulya & Fredros O. Okumu

  4. President’s Office-Regional Administration and Local Government, Morogoro Regional Secretariat, P.O. Box 610, Morogoro, Tanzania

    Kusirye Ukio

  5. Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Huxley Building, Keele, Stafordshire, ST5 5BG, UK

    Frederic Tripet

  6. Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, London, UK

    Ann H. Kelly

  7. Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PN, UK

    Javier Lezaun

  8. Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK

    Fredros O. Okumu

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Mapua, S.A., Finda, M.F., Nambunga, I.H. et al. Correction to: Addressing key gaps in implementation of mosquito larviciding to accelerate malaria vector control in southern Tanzania: results of a stakeholder engagement process in local district councils. Malar J 20, 258 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03778-z

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