Rose Crane and Stephanie Wilmore make argue their case well.  Make sure you also read their elective report of their time in Gai

At 2am on August 17^th in Gai, Eastern Kenya, we were awake, pacing the floor. The source of our worries: 3700 Long-Lasting Insecticide-treated Nets (LLINs) suspended in transit between here and Nairobi.  Three hours previously, over a crackling line, the truck driver had announced he was going to park for the night and sleep.  Preoccupied with the fate of our precious cargo and 50km from the nearest internet cafe, we were unaware that, just hours previously, the WHO had released a ground-breaking Position Statement (1) relevant to the very task we had set out to accomplish.  Three weeks later, by the time we had safely delivered our nets to 1318 households in 23 villages and returned to the UK, this Statement had sparked news interest as far and wide as the Hindu Times (2) to the magazine ‘Africa Today’. (3)

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