As you may have seen, the global health sector has changed dramatically in the past few months. The suspension of US aid funding has deprived millions of access to essential healthcare services. And despite the government's supposed waiver system for life-saving work, many eligible programmes have been unable secure either waivers or the promised funds. Given these seismic changes, we wanted to share some of the impacts on our partner charities, and how that might influence your giving.

Insecticide-treated bednets are one of the most effective tools for combating malaria: a disease that still claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year.

In the fight to control its spread, billions of nets have been distributed across malaria-endemic regions. However, controversy has emerged around the use of these nets, due to concerns that people are using them for fishing rather than their intended purpose.

This critique has been circulating for at least a decade, and it’s often the first thing people think of when bednets are mentioned. But is mosquito net fishing really the epidemic it’s made out to be? Should it cause us to question the value of bednet distribution?