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Fig. 4

From: The fabric of life: what if mosquito nets were durable and widely available but insecticide-free?

Fig. 4

Though ~ 90% of malaria burden occurs in Africa, 17 of the 20 WHO-prequalified nets are manufactured outside Africa (at at 2020), as local manufacturers lack technologies to add insecticides to nets, or produce nets at competitive pricing and scale. It is conceivable that durable, non-insecticidal would be readily manufactured locally, as Africa already has strong apparel-manufacturing industries. Moreover, instead of the non-biodegradable fibres such as polyethylene in many current LLINs, the African nets could possibly be made of cotton or other bio-degradable fibres

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