“No big deal. I’ve had malaria five or six times already,” my Ugandan colleague said as I set up her IV fluid bag.
As luck would have it, she was an adult who had contracted malaria while living at a hospital. Some are not so lucky.
Children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa are more than 15 times more likely to die than they are here. Simple, affordable interventions, like providing adequate nutrition and antimalarial medications, could save more than half of these children from dying. The cost of these interventions, for each of us over a year, would be less than a fast food meal.