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How is the Center's Malaria Control Program unique?

The Carter Center's demonstrated ability to help make things happen at the community level is what distinguishes the organization. The Carter Center's Malaria Control Program is based on the idea that nobody has to die from malaria since the condition is entirely preventable and treatable.  The Malaria Control Program, which was launched in 2007 in Ethiopia and hopes to one day expand to also assist Nigeria, focuses on two concepts.  First, the use of the village-based health care delivery infrastructures already developed with Carter Center assistance to treat other conditions (trachoma, river blindness, lymphatic filariasis), so that malaria control is integrated within a multiple intervention package. 

Second, the free distribution of long-lasting insecticidal bed nets through that infrastructure to all members of at-risk communities. The Center is currently providing LLIN in the Amhara (trachoma-assisted), Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR),  and Oromiya (river blindness-assisted) regions of Ethiopia. The Center's Malaria Control Program is unique in that  there is no selection of who will receive nets based on prioritized need or ability to pay, and adults as well as children are eligible to receive LLIN. A village-based health care delivery infrastructure—merging resources, personnel, health education, and treatment for several diseases into one delivery system—provides an efficient means for distributing bed nets and preventing malaria now.