NAIROBI, July 6 (Reuters) - The World Bank has approved a $60 million loan to help Tanzania fight malaria and train health workers in rural districts, it said in a statement on Friday.

The bank said $25 million would be used to provide insecticide-treated mosquito nets to help prevent the spread of malaria. Another $35 million would go into a pooled fund and to 121 district councils for general support.

"The main objective of the additional financing is to assist the government ... in continuing to improve the quality of health services and the management of resources allocated to the health sector," said Julie McLaughlin, lead health specialist for the World Bank in Tanzania.

The east African country of 40 million people is among Africa's largest recipients of donor aid, with 42 percent of its 2007-08 budget funded by donors.

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