A Dramatic Net Increase
The Global Fund just announced that by the end of ’06 programs it finances will have delivered more than 18 million insecticide-treated malaria bed nets to families at risk from malaria, an increase of 135% from 2005. Malaria kills more than one million people a year, with 90% of these deaths occurring in Africa, mostly in children under 5 years of age. Insecticide-treated-bed nets (ITNs) are widely accepted as one of the most cost–effective malaria prevention measures.
Professor Richard Feachem, Executive Director of the Global Fund, in their release:
“With Global Fund finance, the world has begun a massive counterattack against malaria at a scale we haven’t seen for decades.”
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