Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected mosquitoes.
1,000,000 people die annually, most under the age of 5, more than twice the annual toll of a generation ago.
3,000 children in Africa die daily, one every 30 seconds.
It affects more people than ever before. It is endemic to 106 nations threatening half of the world's population.
Even though most of the time I feel completely helpless in changing this, sometimes I dream about a mosquito net big enough to go through Central and South America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Oceania that would eliminate malaria forever.
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