Last Updated: 13/02/2025
Accelerating scale-up of long lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs)
Objectives
With funding delayed by donors, UNITAID intervened to stop critical supply shortages and incentivize manufacturers to increase capacity in a timely distribution of nets before the rainy season. UNITAID’s support contributed to almost 20% of the total nets delivered in 2009.
A highly effective way to protect families from malaria-infected mosquitoes is through the use of bed nets that are treated with insecticide, known as “long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets” (LLINs). However, the availability of such bed nets in low-income countries with high malaria prevalence has never been adequate, with the purchase and distribution of bed nets taking as long as two years. Delayed donor funding can cause supply shortages in endemic countries.
This project is UNITAID’s response – the organization’s first investment in prevention products. Implemented by UNICEF, this intervention created healthy market conditions – increased access, better quality and shorter production lead times – for LLINs in eight malaria-endemic countries.
Feb 2009 — Dec 2010
$109.2M
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