In Uganda, children below five years are the most affected with malaria. According to the Ugandan Ministry of Health, currently 90% of 100,000 recorded malaria deaths are children, especially from rural areas. The majority of rural communities do not have access to treated mosquito nets, and do not have access to preventive measures.
In Uganda, children below five years are the most affected with malaria. According to the Ugandan Ministry of Health, currently 90% of 100,000 recorded malaria deaths are children, especially from rural areas. The majority of rural communities do not have access to treated mosquito nets, and do not have access to preventive measures. The government of Uganda is investing efforts in the reduction of malaria by providing interventions like the distribution of mosquito nets, or spraying homes with DDT. Malaria cases still remain high because the solutions are not long lasting and mosquito nets are only effective during sleep time. DDT is raising also severe health concerns due to its chemical components.
Malaria is one of today’s major global health challenges and has been associated with slow socioeconomic development and poverty. Uganda has some of the highest reported malaria transmission rates in the world, with approximately 16 million cases reported in 2013 and over 100 000 deaths annually.
Our Solution:
By selling our product with a high margin to resorts, lodges and high end hotels for tourists looking for a natural way of preventing mosquitoes and malaria during their trip, we are able to cross finance and subsidize our sales to rural mothers at the same price as ordinary soap. The impact is leveraging an every day consumer product to fight malaria. Tourists enjoy a locally made and organic repellent soap in their bathrooms while rural mothers are able to protect themselves and their children against one of the biggest killers in Uganda.
Soap is an everyday product even extremely poor families in Africa use almost daily. What if we could sell a soap in rural Uganda which is able to prevent mosquito bites at the same price as ordinary soap? We produce an affordable and long-lasting organic mosquito repellent soap that helps mothers with children below the age of five in rural communities to prevent mosquito bite.
Uganics is the winner of the 2019 Africa Innovation Challenge.
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