This brief focuses on the following points:

• More than one million lives could be saved annually if insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) were routinely used by the populations at greatest risk of malaria.
• Several models for delivery of ITNs have been developed, and the choice among them depends on how capable the commercial sector is to provide bednets.
• A new technology for dipping nets may soon turn people's conventional bednets into long-lasting bednets.