"Innovate, invest and implement innovation" is the theme of World Malaria Day this year 2023. The disease still killed nearly 600,000 people in Africa in 2021.
The range of new solutions is expanding to circumvent the resistance of the parasite or its vector, the mosquito, to drugs and insecticides. Two new nets have been developed, BPO Nets and G2, which combine a pyrethroid with another product. A new, simpler method of administration is advocated for children under 5 years of age (86% of malaria victims) in Sahelian regions.