Outdoor Biting: A Growing Challenge for Malaria Elimination

Malaria prevention tools like insecticide treated nets and indoor spraying have saved millions of lives. But mosquitoes that bite outdoors are creating another challenge.

Modeling suggests that just a 10% increase in outdoor biting could lead to 34 million additional malaria cases, threatening decades of progress.

In this piece, Rinki Deb from Vestergaard highlights the urgent need for innovation: affordable, user centered tools that work in diverse contexts such as peri domestic settings, forest workers, and displaced populations, while also reducing other vector borne diseases like dengue and Chikungunya.