New England Journal of Medicine Publication: Permethrin-Treated Baby Wraps for the Prevention of Malaria

We leveraged the traditional practice of mothers carrying children on their backs in cloth wraps to assess whether treating the wraps with an insect repellent might provide a layer of protection against malaria.

The incidence rate of clinical malaria was 0.73 cases per 100 person-weeks (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.51 to 1.02) in the intervention group and 2.14 cases per 100 person-weeks (95% CI, 1.73 to 2.62) in the control group (incidence rate ratio, 0.34; 95% CI, 0.23 to 0.51; P<0.001) demonstrating a significant reduction in the incidence of clinical malaria in the children utilizing permethrin

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NEJM: Permethrin-Treated Baby Wraps for the Prevention of Malaria