Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Bloomberg: Unacknowledged problems with LLINs are causing a rise in malaria., published by Ian Turner on February 25, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.
In this article, Bloomberg claims that undisclosed manufacturing changes at one of the largest producers of anti-malaria bednets have led to distribution of hundreds of millions of ineffective (or less-effective) bednets, and that this problem is linked to an increase in malaria incidence in the places where these nets were distributed.
The manufacturer is Vestergaard and the Against Malaria Foundation is among their clients.
Bloomberg has a steep paywall but the link here gives free access until March 2.
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