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Malaria - A global affordable healthcare crisis
Deux-Anges’s mother and father do not make much more than $20 to $30 dollars per month selling small items such as soap or sugar along the sides of Goma’s roads in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Living in the poorest slum in of the provincial capital, Ndoole Bamyere cannot afford for any of her four children to fall sick.
So when Deux-Anges became weak with high fever on Friday, Ndoole waited until her temperature was dangerously high before bringing her to the local health centre.
As we come upon World Malaria Day, the world is reminded it has only two years to meet the 2010 targets of delivering effective and affordable protection and treatment to all people at risk of malaria.
Malaria is the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) most common killer disease. One in five children does not make it to their fifth birthday because of it.