A 2025 randomized controlled trial led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Mbarara University in Uganda tested permethrin-treated baby wraps among infants aged 6–18 months in rural western Uganda and found that over six months 34 infants in the permethrin-wrap group tested positive for malaria versus 94 in the water-soaked-wrap control group, a reduction of about 65%.
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Both study arms received insecticide-treated bed nets; wraps in the treatment arm were re-soaked with permethrin every four weeks during the trial.