Introducing a new initiative to prevent exploitative research partnerships in Medical and Veterinary Entomology.

The statement does not focus on authorship alone and it allows authors to reflect on and describe the ways that study communities and local researchers were included in the research process. Of these, 37 (97.4%) included at least one LMIC-based author and 34 (89.5%) included an LMIC-based first or last author. [Extracted from the article]