Put a net over a sleeping family.
Insecticide-treated bed nets are the single best-evidenced way to keep malaria away from a child while they sleep.
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Malaria is a parasite carried by mosquitoes that bite at night. It kills around six hundred thousand people a year, most of them children under five in sub-Saharan Africa. A net treated with insecticide stops the bite and kills the mosquito, which is why it protects the household around it and not only the person underneath.
- MalariaWorld Health OrganizationThe fact sheet: who gets it, where, and what the death toll is each year.
- MalariaOur World in DataCharts of cases and deaths over time, by country, and how far nets and treatment have moved them.
- Insecticide-treated netsGiveWellThe evidence that nets reduce child deaths, and what it costs to get one hung.
The figures
The same figure, across GiveWell's picks
- Child Survival$3,500
- Malaria Medicine$4,000
- Childhood Vaccines$4,500
- Malaria Nets$5,500
Lower is cheaper per life saved. All of them sit far inside GiveWell's funding bar; the spread between them is small next to the spread between any of them and an unevaluated charity.
What Against Malaria Foundation does
AMF funds long-lasting insecticide-treated nets, works with in-country distribution partners to get them onto beds, and then sends people back months later to photograph and record whether the nets are still hanging.
How GiveWell gets there
GiveWell models the number of nets funded, how many people sleep under them, local malaria burden and mortality rates, and how much of the effect would have happened anyway without AMF's money. The follow-up monitoring is a large part of why AMF survives that scrutiny: the effect is measured, not assumed.
What could be wrong
- Cost per life saved is a modeled average across many distributions, not a promise attached to your gift. Nets in a high-burden region avert far more harm than the same nets elsewhere.
- Insecticide resistance in mosquito populations is real and is factored into GiveWell's newer models, but it is a live source of uncertainty about the future.
- AMF sometimes holds funds while it negotiates a distribution. Money arriving today may be deployed in a later campaign.
Every figure is an average program cost, not a receipt. How we phrase things.