**2.1 Insecticide-treated mosquito nets**

An insecticide-treated net (ITN) is a mosquito-blocking bed net that has been treated with a protected, residual insecticide for the purpose of killing and/or repelling mosquitoes. By providing both a physical barrier and an insecticidal effect, sleeping under an ITN may minimise mosquito-human interaction. Nets treated with insecticide have been shown to minimise infant mortality. Uncomplicated *P. falciparum* and *P. vixax* malaria episodes are also reduced by ITN [1, 2].
