http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2005/03/22/net-profit Comments for "Net Profit" en http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2005/03/22/net-profit <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-4"><span class="flexinode-timestamp-13"> March 1, 2005 - 10:00, </span> <span class="flexinode-textfield-14"> Fast Company (Issue 92)</span> <div class="flexinode-textfield-15"> Net Profit, by Jennifer Vilaga</div><br> <div class="flexinode-textarea-6"> <p><strong><em></em></strong>What does it take to make a better bed net? It's no small matter: Bed nets are a critical defense against malaria, which each year kills 1 million people and makes another 300 million ill in developing regions. The solution, it turns out, is no small matter either. <br />Olyset bed nets, featuring a dramatically better pesticide mechanism and an expected lifetime five times that of existing nets, are now coming off the knitting machines at A to Z, a textile company in Arusha, Tanzania. Behind that breakthrough, though, is something even more striking: a sweeping partnership of for-profit and not-for-profit heavies including the World Health Organization, UNICEF, Exxon Mobil Corp., Japan's Sumitomo Chemical, and Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture capitalist. </p> </div> </div> http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2005/03/22/net-profit#comment Health Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:04:01 -0500 _Steve L 109 at http://www.nextbillion.net