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Mothers with their babies unwrap bed nets they received at Janda Health Centre in Tanzania. A new dashboard can account for all nets distributed in the country. © 2017 Magali Rochat/VectorWorks, Courtesy of Photoshare

22 Jul 2019

Dashboard Knows Where Every Net Goes

A dashboard created by a CCP project in concert with the Tanzanian government has saved time and money and made it much easier to distribute needed insecticide-treated mosquito nets to protect families across the East African nation from malaria.

A market in Malawi where mosquito nets are set out to help fish dry in the sun. Photo/Getty Images

07 Jan 2019

Financial and Food Insecurity Blamed for Mosquito Net Misuse on Lake Malawi

“People who live along the lake don’t fish with mosquito nets because they want to," says CCP's Sara Berthe. "They do it because they are poor and hungry and mosquito nets are readily available.”