Table 2

ITM services offered by community cooperatives in Mexico and Colombia and monthly sales

ITM services sold

MEXICO

COLOMBIA


No. of cooperatives

Monthly sale per cooperative

No. of cooperatives

Monthly sale per cooperative


1. Impregnation/re-impregnation of existing nets

1

25

4

532

2. Impregnation of industrially produced nets or existing nets

7

91

0

-

3. Local production of nets and impregnation

01

-

2

108

All ITM services together

8

83

6

71


1 One Mexican cooperative is starting to produce nets for hammocks which are not available on the market 2 One cooperative has just started to sell impregnation services 3 90% of these impregnated nets were sold to an international NGO; occasional re-impregnation of existing nets (n = 6 per month per cooperative)

Kroeger et al. Malaria Journal 2002 1:15   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-1-15

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