Auntimoll and SurreyGuy, surely that is the whole reason that these countries are living in poverty? Because their governments choose not to help them, in some cases the governments choose to rape and murder their people, so why would they want to supply them with mosquito nets or help them financially?
I wholeheartedly agree that there are people in the UK that also need help, but, personally, I have never seen a British person starving to death because they cannot afford to eat or do not have the option of going to a nightshelter or a soup kitchen, or being entitled to JSA or social security.
Also, it's all very well moving heaven and earth to get a mosquito net but heaven and earth doesn't pay for it - cash does. If you don't work where would you get the money for a net when it costs a quarter of the average wage? If you have to feed an entire family on what equates to �20 per month, food takes priority over a mosquito net I would think. Also, moreoften than not the mosquito nets simply are not available - they don't tend to have big warehouses storing thing like that that you could steal one, they're simply not available. It would be the equivalent of a mosquito net costing �400 and you having to choose which member of your family uses it, whilst some go hungry because you chose to pay for the net rather than feed them.
I don't know about other countries, but in my experience Denmark do a huge amount of charity work for African countries / charities.