Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
‘2 Billionth Net’
Malaria is a preventable disease that kills a child every 2 minutes.
The Partnership to End Malaria, representative of the global malaria community, wanted to celebrate the milestone of two billion insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs) delivered worldwide since 2004. The film shows the global effort required to boost funding, pioneer, produce and deliver the insecticide-treated mosquito nets to millions of families living at risk. This film follows the journey of the two-billionth mosquito net being passed among representatives of the global malaria community including advocates, a scientist, global leaders and country health workers, finally reaching a family in Nampula, Mozambique, one of 5 countries with the highest malaria burden.
It also features a classroom of young women in Nyanza Province, Kenya, including Clementina Akinyi. Ms Akinyi, now in her last year of high school, grew up sleeping under insecticide-treated mosquito nets. She was photographed as a young child under a mosquito net. The image was widely published and shared, becoming iconic of the fight against malaria.
