bed nets

Mosquitoes can rapidly develop resistance to bed nets treated with insecticide, a new study from Senegal suggests.

(World Vision) A new report warns basic life-saving solutions such as hygiene, adequate nutrition, bed nets and skilled birth attendants "not a priority" for too many leaders.

"Politics, not poverty, is what is killing these children," the NGO's leader says. Much health funding is spent in ways that fail to have greatest impact for saving children and mothers; changing that could save as many as six million a year.

(Academy for Educational Development) In a decade-long initiative to protect millions of families from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, a US government-funded project helped sell 50 million bed nets in seven countries, crafted a voucher system to allow the poor to receive them for free or partial cost and created enough incentives for private companies that they invested $88 million to expand their businesses, according to results released today by AED at a conference held at the National Press Club.