Malaria claims three million lives a year, mostly children in sub-Saharan Africa. Policies for controlling the disease have, over the past decade, shifted from drug and vaccine research to focusing on insecticide-treated mosquito bednets. In this article, Jon Snow, one of Britain's most prominent journalists, reports on a recent visit to Africa, where he encountered the network of businesses — from a Tanzanian factory to multinational pharmaceutical and oil companies — mass producing long-lasting nets and creating a viable market for them in Africa, as reported by SciDev.