Preventing child deaths!
Nearly 1 million young children die of malaria every year in Africa but it can be prevented. The most important mosquito vectors of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa all bite predominantly indoors between sunset and sunrise. Sleeping under a treated net during this period can greatly reduce exposure to mosquitoes and provide good protection against malaria.
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Links on Insecticide-Treated Nets
- A Strategic Framework for Coordinated National Action: Scaling up Insecticide-treated Netting Programmes in Africa
- Mosquito nets cut birth problems, BBC, April 2007
- Monitoring mosquito net coverage for malaria control in Africa: possession vs. use by children under 5 years, August 2003
- Insecticide-treated mosquito nets, RBM
- The enemy is malaria. The cure is £25m, Guardian, Dec 2007
- Research: Net benefits, Wellcome Trust, Sept 07
- Protecting vulnerable groups in malaria-endemic areas in Africa through accelerated deployment of insecticide-treated nets, WHO/UNICEF Joint statement.
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Links on Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets
- Insecticide-treated materials - LLINs Updates
- Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets: current status & programmatic issues
- Impact of long-lasting insecticidal-treated nets (LLINs) and artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) measured using surveillance data, in four African countries, Jan 2008, WHO
- Long lasting insecticide impregnated nets - LLIN's, Sept 04
Links on the Commercial Sector & Nets
- Financing & delivering insecticide treated nets, Malaria Consortium
- UGANDA'S COMMERCIAL SECTOR DELIVERS 3 OUT OF EVERY 4 NETS IN PEOPLE'S HOMES, AED
- Public Health Goes Private in Africa: Mosquito Nets Could Become Big Business, Population Reference Bureau, 2000
- Quick Wins Versus Sustainability: Options for the Upscaling of Insecticide-Treated Nets
- NetMark - a Public Private Partnership
- Editorial: Commercial sector partnerships for malaria control, May 1999
- Editorial: Expanding insecticide-treated mosquito net coverage in Africa: tradeoffs between public and commercial strategies, Oct 2003