Estimated cost and operational structure of pgSIT malaria vector control programs in selected West African countries.

ABSTRACT: Malaria control has primarily been achieved through vector control, but current methods are insufficient to achieve elimination. Precision guided sterile insect technique (pgSIT) is a mosquito suppression technique that generates sterile male mosquitoes for mass release. Our previous studies showed that this intervention is expected to be highly cost-effective in a malaria endemic region of West Africa, but these estimates used only 15-31% capacity for sex sorting, which is the limiting production step and a primary cost. We, therefore, determined the most cost efficient facility size by calculating the cost per million Anopheles gambiae suppressed as the facility was scaled up to suppress more mosquitoes. We developed an optimized facility size per 9.2 million mosquitoes suppressed

SUBMITTER: Gendron WAC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12463680 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature