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I doubt people will back off of malaria at this point in the past it seems like once it starts getting under control in a region it keeps going down. There is a lot of anti-malaria momentum building up with awareness and malaria education only increasing.

The last few years have been success after success with the Global Fund and the Gates Foundation pouring in money.

I think it would be the lesser of 2 evils.

To continue your HIV/AIDS analogy, we know that people are taking more risks due to availability of HIV/AIDS meds. I don't think that means we should stop HIV/AIDS meds. We should still produce them and sell them.

When I lived in Cambodia, even when I was in areas where malaria was not common I still used a mosquito net every night, because being bitten by several thousand mosquitoes is not conducive to sound sleep.

And I got malaria anyway.

There are always going to be Darwin Award candidates, and they're always going to take any form of risk mitigation as an invitation to engage in riskier behavior, whether it's a vaccine or an air bag.