Last Updated: 26/09/2025
Outdoor mosquito control as a complementary strategy to accelerate malaria elimination in Africa
Objectives
The main goal of this project is to develop a practical and community-driven outdoor vector control strategy for complementing existing interventions such as ITNs and IRS, so as to accelerate efforts towards malaria elimination in Africa.
The specific objectives are:
- Design and construct prototype outdoor mosquito control devices that can be used to lure, trap and kill malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in rural and remote communities.
- Assess the effects of the outdoor mosquito control devices, on densities and survival of malaria vectors around people’s homes.
- Develop a geo-targeting strategy to guide optimal positioning of the outdoor mosquito control devices within rural and remote villages.
- Explore innovative strategies for the sustainable market-based financing of the outdoor mosquito control devices within rural and remote communities.
- Assess the community level effects of outdoor mosquito control devices.
- Assess spatial and temporal variations in malaria vector densities and transmission in rural Tanzania.
Principal Institution
Principal Investigators / Focal Persons
Rationale and Abstract
On July 13, 2011, Grand Challenges Canada announced a grant to support further development of a new innovative device to attract and kill mosquitoes that can transmit malaria. Developed by Dr. Fredros Okumu (Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania), the device is placed outside the home and is the outdoor complement to bed nets and sprays which protect people from infection in their homes.
Date
May 2011 — May 2014
Total Project Funding
$775,455
Funding Details
Grand Challenges Canada, Canada
Grand Challenges Canada’s Co-Funded Phase II GCE program
Gates Foundation (GF), United States
BMGF's Grand Challenges Explorations program
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