MALARIA: Bed net use and abuse

Bill Breiger, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's department of international health, says he's heard lots of stories about the misuse of bed nets.
"This is a normal thing," he says. "When you have an innovation, you give it to people, they interpret it differently in their culture and they don't always use it the way you intend."
Breiger points out that this is a larger problem with health programs, which often lack the "social science component." The follow up with nets — teaching people how to use, maintain and store them — has been "one of the weaker links in the overall program."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/05/malaria_bed_net_getting_caught.html