Not exact matches
Part of this success is due to President George W. Bush's President's Malaria Initiative, which helped ensure that more than 1 million
bed nets were
distributed across the country, and leadership from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
But when the massive rollout of insecticide - treated
bed nets began in Africa in the early 2000s — more than a billion have been
distributed — little thought was given to resistance, says Maureen Coetzee, director of the Wits Research Institute for Malaria at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
But 25 percent of the malaria infections among children could be eradicated by
distributing new insecticide - treated
bed nets that would cost $ 7 apiece.