Fighting Malaria in Africa: U.S. to Sponsor Low-Cost Mosquito Net Program in Uganda, Benefitting More Than 1 Million

Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced that it will collaborate with the Government of Uganda to implement a 19-district insecticide re-treatment program for 715,000 bed nets to protect more than 1 million residents from malaria. The program is supported by the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and will begin in May 2006.