Insecticide-treated Mosquito Nets (ITNs)
Source: Karie Atkinson/USAID |
ITNs treated with insecticide have been proved highly effective in killing mosquitoes. In addition, the netting acts as a protective barrier. Consistently sleeping under an ITN can decrease severe malaria by 45 percent, reduce premature births by 42 percent, and cut all-cause child mortality by 17 to 63 percent. PMI is expanding access to free and highly subsidized nets while also creating commercial markets in African countries.
Voices from the Field
- Ghana: Umbrella Sales Ladies Make Money Doing a Job They Like - (view page 4) [PDF, 875KB]
- Ghana: Progress Toward Building a Sustainable Market for ITNs [PDF, 858KB]
- Ghana: NetMark Successfully Implements Commercial Discount Voucher Scheme for ITNs [PDF, 260KB]
- Madagascar: First Person: Bednets Go Beyond Malaria Campaign
- Madagascar: Mosquito Nets Save Lives
- Mozambique: Free Mosquito Nets Draw Women to Health Facilities
- Senegal: Senegal Strings Up, Treats Nearly 615,000 PMI Bednets
- Senegal: Expanding the Mosquito Nets Reach
- Senegal: Vouching for Bednets - Senegal Beats Back Malaria with a Deadly Featherweight
- Senegal: Women's Groups Net Profits while Fighting Malaria
- Tanzania: Nets Make Good Business
- Uganda: Net Retreatment Reduces Malaria in Ugandan Family
Additional Resources
- Insecticide-treated Mosquito Nets (ITNs) Fact Sheet
- USAID, Code of Federal Regulations, Title 22, CFR 216.3; USAID Environmental Regulations
- WHO Releases New Guidance on Insecticide-treated Mosquito Nets
For the first time, WHO recommends that insecticidal nets be long-lasting, and distributed either free or highly subsidized and used by all community members
- Personal Protection and Vector Control Options for Prevention of Malaria [PDF, 35KB]
RBM Partnership Consensus Statement
- The Western Kenya insecticide-treated bed net trial
- The Workshop on Mapping Models for Delivery of ITNs through Targeted Subsidies — Zambia
Hosted by the RBM Partnership Secretariat and the Government of Zambia, May 11-13, 2003
- Malaria and HIV/AIDS Interactions and Implications: Conclusions of a Technical Consultation [PDF, 144KB]
Conclusions of a Technical Consultation convened by WHO, June 23-25, 2004