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.