Lives Lost / Mozambique

Combating malaria
Malaria kills more than 1 million people a year, mostly children. Ninety percent of the deaths occur in Africa where resistance to malaria drugs is rampant. Alternate ways of prevention and control offer hope against the anopheles mosquito, the carrier of the parasitic disease.

Areas of risk Malaria is widespread in the tropics and some parts of the subtropics where there is warmth and water.