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

世界上有87个国家和领土的近一半人口生活在存在疟疾传播风险的地区。疟疾仍然是非洲最大的杀手，尤其是5岁以下儿童。孕妇对疟疾的易感性是孕妇的3倍。低水平感染造成发病率，造成大量工作日损失；较低的生产力;显著降低GDP增长。如果养家糊口的人长期不工作，贫困家庭可能会重新陷入极端贫困。在许多国家，防治疟疾的工作在Covid期间出现倒退，原因是医疗保健中断、无法前往获取药品、喷雾量减少等。农村地区缺乏电力限制了预防机会。在许多国家，电网覆盖不到20%的农村用户，太阳能解决方案也不是所有人都能负担得起。农村家庭只能依靠被动治疗，如经杀虫剂处理的蚊帐。但是，在蚊子特别活跃的黄昏和就寝时间之间，这些措施并不能提供保护。该项目旨在确定一个能够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。低电力需求将允许它用于任何太阳能家庭系统，甚至太阳能灯。低成本使主要捐助者、慈善机构和卫生当局能够负担得起，从而实现全民覆盖。将与合作伙伴合作，研究设计一种非常低成本的最小太阳能系统的可行性，以提供能源必需品（清洁明亮的光、手机充电和驱蚊剂/杀虫剂充电）；非政府组织和潜在的终端用户群体。至关重要的是，我们必须调查建立低成本、广泛可用的补药分销网络的可行性，并以低成本提供这些补药（除了极端情况外，最好没有补贴，以腾出医疗预算来解决其他关键卫生目标，包括Covid带来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).