The 20 were selected from 440 applications in 17 African countries and the awards are given to women involved in novel scientific research in sub-Saharan Africa, which is going to help communities.
It was her doctoral research that focuses on malaria vector control that won her recognition for the awards. She said the success of vector control strategies depends on timely and accurate knowledge of the distribution of vectors spatially and temporally. She shared that her PhD research forms part of a bigger project in which male mosquitoes are mass-reared in the laboratory, sterilised and released into the wild so that when they mate with native wild females, the offspring from such mating are not viable and cannot transform malaria.The road has not always been easy for Mazarire, who shared that she had a tough upbringing, as she was raised by her grandmother after her parents had passed away when she was seven years old.