Portable Exposure-Free Huts to Protect Itinerant Rice Farmers from Mosquito-Borne Illnesses: Reducing Disease and Improving Productivity

Subsistence itinerant rice farmers often live in improvised semi-open shacks, thus they are disproportionately more exposed to infectious mosquito bites than the general population. We propose using portable and low-cost huts that are both fire-proof and mosquito-proof to prevent mosquito-borne illnesses, and hence increase productivity of these itinerant farming households. The project will demonstrate the utility of such simple technologies for improving health among transient communities like pastoralists, similarly under-served by conventional health systems.