Center: Teaching Ethiopian children how to use OlysetTM Nets. Hirooka says, “It’s essential to instruct children properly: ‘When you tuck yourself into bed, make sure you’re completely surrounded by the net.’”Left: An insecticide-treated mosquito net can save the lives of young children, and bring peace of mind to their mothers. Atsuko Hirooka is the executive offi cer of Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. in charge of environmental health. She is responsible for the long-lasting insecticidal net business as well as other vector control products' R&D, manufacturing, marketing and sales.18he vivid blue mosquito net is called “Olyset™ Net.” Created in 1994 by Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., it is the world’s first mosquito net in which an insecticide is incorporated into threads made of polyethylene resin. the executive officer who heads the vector control business in the company’s Environmental Health Division, says, “Malaria can be prevented by a modern lifestyle. Anopheles, mosquitoes the malaria disease vector, are active at night, so encounters can be avoided by sleeping in a tightly-built house that is difficult for them to enter. Also, if an insecticide is used, many mosquitoes that manage to come inside can be eliminated.” However, that lifestyle is beyond the reach of many people. One solution is Atsuko Hirooka, an insecticide-treated mosquito net, which gives maximum benefi t for a minimal investment. The Olyset™ Net is the fi rst to incorporate an active agent, which persists for at least three years, and that has now become the mainstream approach. As design considerations, the net must be comfortable for humans to use every day, having good air permeability. For that reason, Olyset™ Net has a wide mesh but does not allow mosquitoes to pass through due to the effect of the insecticide, which also provides knockdown and repellency effects. In addition, Olyset™ Net is especially designed to make the insecticidal effect persist repeated wash cycles. Such a net will keep people safe, and even children under fi ve years of age, who have a particularly high risk of dying from malaria in homes with open through FEATURE Seeds of SDGsData from WHO show that malaria infected 216 million people in 91 nations and regions in 2016, with 445,000 deaths.[1]Aiming to eradicate the “devil’s disease,” Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. of Japan offers an “insect-proof mosquito net.”The Life-Saving Blue Mosquito NetT
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