Nigeria is now making its own next-generation malaria nets — and 31 states are already using them

Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, Nigeria's health minister, has a simple conviction: the country with the world's heaviest malaria burden should make its own mosquito nets. On September 13, Harvestfield Healthcare began commercial production of Synera DuoForte — next-generation dual-insecticide nets — at its facility in Ogun State's free trade zone, the first wholly Nigerian-owned plant of its kind. The nets pair a standard pyrethroid with a second insecticide, chlorfenapyr, so they keep working where mosquitoes have grown resistant to ordinary nets; the product is WHO-prequalified and NAFDAC/ISO certified. The factory is already supplying a World Bank-funded program covering 31 states, replacing imports that arrive after a 45-to-60-day ocean journey. "Building the capacity to manufacture our own health products is central to Nigeria's health security," said Pate. Harvestfield has delivered more than 42 million nets across all 36 states over 26 years.