E-DRUG: Source of bednets for West Africa?
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Please can anyone help with an appropriate contact? A colleague is
looking for a source of bednets (preferably impregnated with
insecticide) that can be purchased for use in schools and orphanages
in West Africa. It would be good to be able to purchase from a local
supplier or an organisation that supports local projects.
Best wishes
Beverley Snell
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Beverley Snell
Senior Fellow
Centre for International Health
Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research & Public Health
GPO Box 2284, Melbourne 3001 Australia http://www.burnet.internationalhealth.edu.au
Telephone 613 9282 2115 / 9282 2275
Fax 61 3 9282 2144 or 9282 2100
Time zone: 10 hours ahead of GMT.
email <bev@burnet.edu.au>
Site: Alfred Medical Research & Education Precinct (AMREP),
85 Commercial Road, Prahran 3181
E-DRUG: Source of bednets for West Africa? (3)
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[Probably the same company Ken mentioned, but info on PSI new. KM]
Beverley - I have heard there is a factory in Arusha making the nets, and
that PSI is handling the distribution - maybe you can use these clues to
gather futher information. Philippa.
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Philippa Saunders
Essential Drugs Project
77 Lee Road
Blackheath
London SE3 9EN
UK
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Beverley
Thanks for the request. Well,this is from Kenya and I know we are far from West Africa. However,if your colleague cannot find the impreginated bed nets from a local supplier in West Africa, we do have them in Kenya and I can provide contacts for the firm which deals with them.
In addition, transport may not be a big problem to West Africa since our national airline, Kenya Airways flies to West African destinations like Freetown in Senegal, Abijan, Lagos etc.
Hope this helps