Strategy
In 2024, IVCC presented its updated five-year strategic plan, focused on improving and saving lives of vulnerable populations impacted by mosquito-borne diseases, through the delivery of a sustainable tool-box of vector control tools.
Originally funded through a $50 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, IVCC is now supported by further funding partners including UKAID, USAID, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and the Australian Government. IVCC has previously benefited from funding from Unitaid and The Global Fund.
IVCC’s 2024 – 2028 strategy is underpinned by four key strategic pillars. The solutions IVCC develop are principally concerned with the development of new public health insecticides for use on Insecticidal Treated Nets (ITNs), which primarily come in the form of repurposed insecticides from agriculture and the development of novel Active Ingredients (AI).
Thanks to previous successes, there are a range of Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) insecticides with different modes of action available to support implementation of rotation in country IRS programmes. Our goal in the next five years is to maintain the relevance of IRS as a tailored vector control intervention and help maintain a minimum of three, different, non-pyrethroid modes of action for IRS that are effective against resistant mosquitoes.
Spatial emanators are expected to achieve recognition of public health value for indoor use. Our goal is to enable the adoption of spatial emanators in a range of different use scenarios with multiple active ingredients to volatile pyrethroids if the risk of resistance is significant.
The revised strategy also acknowledges the importance addressing emerging challenges, such as changes in mosquito biting behaviour. Our goal is to advance innovative technologies to address outdoor transmission.
IVCC continues to actively explore new and alternative vector control solutions that can complement the core products, recognising that a broad spectrum of vector control tools will give IVCC the greatest chance of fulfilling its mission and goals.
IVCC is a dynamic organisation that has proven itself capable of proactively responding to the evolving malaria and NTD environment. IVCC will continue to evolve and innovate around its core mission to ensure that it is best positioned to save lives through vector control.
Successes
Insecticide resistance threatens to undermine successes in the fight against insect-borne diseases, like malaria. That’s why at IVCC we help create innovative solutions for vector control.
We have made great strides towards achieving this mission and have recorded many key accomplishments to date. These include the evaluation of over 4.5 million compounds for potential use as public health insecticides, leading to six classes of novel AIs identified for possible development and the development of a diagnostic system for malarial insecticide resistance detection. Recently, we supported the launch of two new long lasting IRS formulations, Sumitomo’s SumiShield® 50WG and Bayer’s Fludora® Fusion. They expand the range of vector control tools for challenging malarial insecticide resistance, we also launched insecticide quantification kits to monitor spray programme implementation.
IVCC have facilitated the first two African vector control field trial sites to achieve Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) certification and continue to support other sites with this aim. Through our Market Access work, and projects such as NGenIRS and the New Nets Project, we are working with partners to establish sustainable, competitive and growing markets for vector control tools, making them more accessible and affordable for millions of people.
Governance
IVCC is a not-for-profit company registered as a charity in the UK. The strategy and scope of IVCC is directed by its core team under governance of the Board of Trustees, who represent a wide range of expertise.
Advisory Committees
Our external advisory advice committees and groups provide expert specialist advice, guidance as well as advice and assessment of vector control products in development. Each advisory group have specific terms of reference underpinned by the members’ expert scientific knowledge.
