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Our Mission to Help End Malaria and Other Insect-Borne diseases
Helping Safeguard Communities in the Fight Against Malaria
For 65+ years, SC Johnson has been working to help protect families from insect-borne disease. By leveraging our decades of entomological expertise and capabilities, we have developed breakthrough spatial repellent tools like Guardian™, that can significantly reduce the presence of mosquitos in households. Malaria is one of the world’s deadliest diseases, even in 2024, it takes the life of a child under 5 every minute – a statistic SC Johnson and our dedicated partners are working to change.
Our goal is to help eradicate malaria.
As the makers of Raid®, OFF!® and Baygon®, and a leader in the insect repellent space, SC Johnson is committed to working toward the prevention and eradication of malaria.
For over 60 years, we've used our entomological expertise to develop products that provide protection against malaria and other insect-borne diseases. Since 2013, our Healthier World Initiative has focused specifically on helping the world’s most vulnerable people fight against insect-borne diseases and other health concerns.
This includes committing over $100 million to the development, testing, production and deployment of spatial repellents as a new public health intervention to prevent insect-borne disease.
Even after 139 years, doing what’s right never gets old. Helping eradicate malaria is one way SC Johnson remains a family company at work for a better world.
Our actions have spanned more than 10-year journey around the globe:
2006 - Present
China
2007 - 2009
Indonesia
2010 - 2011
Indonesia
2014 - 2019
Peru
2014 - 2019
Kenya
2021 - 2023
Mali
2021 - 2024
Sri Lanka
2022 - 2024
Uganda
2021 - 2024
Global
Ongoing
Path to a Policy
Getting new public health tools to the people who need them most requires a World Health Organization policy recommendation – their official stamp of approval. It’s a long and complex process.
Our Mosquito Shield™ spatial repellent, developed by a dedicated team in 2017, is an easy-to-use product that can help protect a semi-enclosed or enclosed space from mosquitoes without requiring electricity or a flame to work. This repellent is ideal for semi-permanent homes, clinics requiring frequent cleaning, temporary IDP camps and rapid response settings. It has been through trials in Indonesia and Peru, with promising results, and is now in large-scale clinical trials funded by Unitaid in Kenya, Mali and Sri Lanka. A single case holds 2000 units, which can help protect 250 homes.”
Partners
The Global Fund
The Global Fund builds and fuels worldwide coalition of governments accelerating the elimination of malaria.
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United Nations Foundation
United Nations Foundation brings together a diverse set of partners, influencers, and supporters to successfully advocate for increased U.S. leadership and funding for global malaria programs.
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The MENTOR Initiative
The MENTOR Initiative works in high-risk and humanitarian settings to prevent malaria in Yemen and Nigeria and leishmaniasis in Syria.
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Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete Foundation
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete Foundation's mission is to work with governments and stakeholders to drive change and improve the quality of lives across Africa.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s mission is to create a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life.
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Society for Family Health-Rwanda
Society for Family Health-Rwanda provides training and certification to unofficial caregivers and community health workers in Rwanda to help them build a foundation for a career and earn a living wage.
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