Shovels aren’t very glamorous, but they’ve been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.

Despite the real danger of malaria, a wide swath of people of every age and education level and nationality all around the world imagine mosquito nets to be ‘confining’ and ‘suffocating;’ most others refuse to...

If people’s night fears of sorcery – which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets – fail to impress the outsider, the brute everyday reality remains; in a number of rural African villages it...