01484nas a2200205   4500000000100000008004100001260003400042653005700076653002700133653002100160653001300181100001200194700001300206700001600219700001100235245007900246856011000325520081800435022002501253       2021                            d  bOxford University Press (OUP)10aPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health10aHealth(social science)10aGeneral Medicine10aCovid-191 aAbomo P1 aMiaka EM1 aCrossman SJ1 aHope A00aDemonstrating the sustainability of capacity strengthening amidst COVID-19  uhttps://academic.oup.com/inthealth/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/inthealth/ihab004/36287883/ihab004.pdf3 a<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>
               <jats:p>The global disruptions caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis posed a threat to the momentum the vector control team at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the Programme National de Lutte contre la Tryaponosomiase Humaine Africaine (PNLTHA) had built in their efforts to control tsetse fly populations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But despite the pandemic and global lockdown, field activities did continue and the same impressive results in tsetse fly reduction were observed and the team followed this by completing a round of ‘tiny target’ deployment without any external presence. Such a success was possible due to the investment in vector control capacity strengthening undertaken by the LSTM and PNLTHA.</jats:p>  a1876-3413, 1876-3405