A shortage of drugs and funds and delays in distributing mosquito nets in Africa are hampering a campaign to reduce malaria's annual death toll of one million worldwide...[says WHO & UNICEF World Malaria Report 2005]...Nevertheless, there was "clear evidence of successful control efforts" in many countries, citing wider distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets in Ghana, Nigeria and Togo...Novartis, which is providing its ACT drug Coartem at cost for use in developing countries, announced in November that its Chinese suppliers of the main ingredient, were unable to deliver enough this year.