Global Fund Delivers 46 Million Nets

GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 27, 2007 — The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the world's largest international financier of the fight against malaria, today announced that programs it supports have delivered 46 million bed nets to families at risk of contracting malaria so far in 2007, a 155 percent increase over the 18 million delivered in 2006. See the Global Fund press release.

PSI is one of the Global Fund partners that delivers those nets and has delivered almost 10 million nets from January through October of this year from all of it donors. With Global Fund support, PSI distributes nets in Angola, Cambodia, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Madagascar, Namibia, Nepal, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

With approved financing for 146 programs fighting malaria in 78 countries worth more than US$ 3.6 billion over five years, the Global Fund also provided the financing for effective drugs to treat approximately 44 million people suffering from malaria.

Insecticide-treated bed nets are one of the most cost-effective ways to prevent malaria transmission. Recently published studies show that a combined program of bed nets and treatment can reduce transmission by as much as 90 percent in areas with high coverage rates. Since insecticide-treated nets kill mosquitoes, they also help reduce malaria transmission community-wide.

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