Feasibility/compliance trials for off-grid active spatial mosquito repellent/insecticide system recharged by low-cost solar home system

世界上近一半的人口生活在87个国家和地区存在疟疾传播风险的地区。疟疾仍然是非洲最大的杀手，特别是对5岁以下的儿童。怀孕的母亲对疟疾的易感性高3倍。低水平的感染会造成发病率，造成大量工作日的损失;降低生产力;大大降低国内生产总值的增长。如果养家糊口的人长期不工作，贫困家庭可能重新陷入极端贫困。在许多国家，由于医疗保健中断、无法前往获取药物、喷洒减少等原因，抗击疟疾的斗争在新冠肺炎期间出现倒退。农村地区的预防机会因农村电力不足而受到限制。在许多国家，电网覆盖不到20%的农村客户，太阳能解决方案无法为所有人所负担。农村家庭只能依靠被动治疗，如驱虫蚊帐。但在黄昏和睡觉时间之间，当蚊子特别活跃时，这些措施并不能提供保护。该项目旨在确定能够被太阳能充电的主动空间驱蚊系统的可行性和可能的合规性。低功耗将使其能够用于任何太阳能家庭系统，甚至与太阳能灯。低成本使主要捐助者、慈善机构和卫生当局的贫困家庭负担得起全民覆盖。将与合作伙伴、非政府组织和潜在的最终用户团体合作，研究设计一个成本极低的小型太阳能系统以提供能源必需品（清洁明亮的灯光、手机充电和给驱蚊剂/杀虫剂充电）的可行性。我们必须研究为补充剂建立低成本广泛供应的分销网络的可行性，并以低成本提供补充剂（最好没有补贴，除非处于极端情况，以腾出医疗预算来应对其他关键健康目标，包括新冠肺炎的任何持续健康问题）。

Nearly half the world's population lives in areas at risk of M**alaria** transmission in 87 countries and territories. Malaria remains the biggest killer in Africa, especially for under 5's. Pregnant mothers are 3 x more susceptible to Malaria. Low level infections create morbidity with major loss of working days; lower productivity; significantly reducing GDP growth. Poor families may be tipped back into extreme poverty if the bread-winner have long absences from work. In many countries, the fight against Malaria went backwards during Covid as result of disruption to healthcare, inability to travel to get medicines, lesser spraying etc.Prevention opportunities in rural districts are limited by the absence of rural electricity. The grid reaches less than 20% of rural customers in many countries and solar solutions cannot be afforded by all. Rural families must rely on only passive treatments such as insecticide treated bed-nets. But these provide no protection between dusk and bed-time when mosquitoes are particularly active. This project seeks to determine the feasibility and likely compliance with an active spatial mosquito repellent system, capable of being solar charged. Low power-demand will allow it to be used in any solar home systems or even with solar lanterns. Low cost make it affordable by poor families by major donors, charities and Health authorities to get universal coverage. The feasibility of designing a very low-cost minimal Solar system to provide the energy necessities (clean bright light, cell phone charging and recharging the mosquito repellent/insecticide) will be investigated in collaborations with partners; NGO's and potential end-user groups. It is essential that we investigate the feasibility of setting up low-cost widely available distribution network for the refills and that these are provided at low cost (preferably without subsidy except for those in extremis to free up healthcare budgets to tackle other key health targets, including any on-going health issues from Covid).