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IVCC leads a consortium of partners on the New Nets Project (NNP), which will pilot insecticidal nets treated with new insecticide combinations in moderate to high transmission areas throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

The New Nets Project

The project will build the evidence needed to allow the World Health Organisation (WHO) to consider making new policy around the use of these nets and will also assess their cost-effectiveness under pilot conditions. Ultimately the project and its partners seek to not only establish the necessary evidence base needed to support an appropriate policy recommendation, but to also make the new nets a sustainable choice for countries looking for the best value for money in controlling malaria.

Project Aims

Mosquitoes are becoming increasingly resistant to the pyrethroid insecticides used on insecticidal treated nets, and this may reduce the nets’ ability to protect people from malaria, so we must continue to develop and test new tools. The New Nets Project (NNP) works with the next generation of nets, which are dual insecticide nets. These new nets don’t yet have a World Health Organisation (WHO) policy recommendation confirming that countries with pyrethroid resistance should consider them over standard nets. NNP will build the epidemiological evidence needed to allow WHO to consider making this new policy recommendation. Under this project, the nets will be assessed in a robust study in Benin to give definitive evidence of how well they perform compared to standard nets.

The project will also assess the cost-effectiveness of the nets under operational pilot conditions, across countries representing different epidemiological, insecticide resistance and entomological profiles. The nets will first be deployed in 2019 in Burkina Faso in West Africa and Rwanda in East Africa, then the project partners will select additional countries for pilots in 2019, 2020 and 2021. These pilots will allow us to understand the extra benefit these nets can bring in different settings. This information will help countries make informed decisions about how best to spend their malaria control budgets. Additionally, the production volumes procured for the pilots will help the project to negotiate significant price reductions. These reductions are needed to make the new nets a sustainable choice for countries looking for the best value for money in controlling malaria.