In the News: How Spatial Repellents Can Accelerate the Fight Against Malaria

For over 65 years, SC Johnson has been working to protect families from insect-borne disease. In new reporting, Forbes covers the growing momentum behind the use of spatial repellents, tools that release an active ingredient to repel mosquitoes, as an effective complement to existing malaria prevention methods.

According to Forbes, the effectiveness of spatial repellents has been established, noting a trial of 5,600 children in Kenya that showed spatial repellents, used alongside bed nets, saw fewer malaria infections. The article highlights the World Health Organization’s conditional recommendation made in August for global use of spatial repellents to help prevent disease and prequalification of two tools manufactured by SC Johnson, Guardian and Mosquito Shield.  SC Johnson has also already started production for its spatial repellants in Nairobi, which could produce 20 million devices per year.

“We’re just getting started, and our goal remains the same: no child should ever die from a mosquito bite.” – Fisk Johnson, CEO, SC Johnson

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