About the Authors

Lucy Smith Paintain

Lucy.Paintain@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Jan Kolaczinski

Affiliation Strategy, Investment and Impact Division, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland

Melanie Renshaw

Affiliation African Leaders Malaria Alliance, Geneva, Switzerland

Scott Filler

Affiliation Strategy, Investment and Impact Division, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland

Albert Kilian

Affiliation Tropical Health LLP, Montagut, Girona, Spain

Jayne Webster

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Kojo Lokko

Affiliation Center for Communication Programs, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Matthew Lynch

Affiliation Center for Communication Programs, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Albert Kilian's contribution to this work was not paid for (pro bono) nor is AK or the consulting firm Tropical Health LLP in any way linked to direct or indirect commercial interests or patents concerning LLIN so that no conflict of interest exists. The NetCALC tool, copyright by Albert Kilian, is an open access software under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License and, therefore, has no limitations to data and material sharing. This does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. None of the other authors have any competing interests to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LSP ML KL JW. Performed the experiments: LSP. Analyzed the data: LSP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK MR JK SF . Wrote the paper: LSP JK MR SF AK JW KL ML.