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April Harding at the Global Health Policy blog responds to the Economist article (linked here) and makes a few telling comments,

As noted in The Economist, the interventions assessed included simultaneous free distribution of bednets and free distribution of artemisinin drugs - the highly-effective malaria treatment. So these reviews do not shed light on the relative effectiveness of bednet coverage interventions.

While the review can’t shed light on bednet coverage interventions, the very high mortality reductions in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Zambia from the dual (bednet/ drug) intervention are striking. These findings should be examined as quickly as possible to inform malaria programs being designed now.

Unfortunately, the WHO review mentioned in The Economist is not published or available for review - so it is not possible to judge the quality of the analysis[link]

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