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"Every day now we attend a burial ceremony of a child below 10 years old who died from malaria and measles. This is the season of mosquitoes. Children die because of mosquitoes and dirty water." - John Paul Kibalama, SUUBI Comm. Dev. Initiative, Uganda

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) sponsors substantial malaria research worldwide. Malaria is not a unique military infectious disease, it is a major global health issue and, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) World Malaria Report, 216 million cases and an estimated 655,000 deaths occurred in 2010. Most deaths occur among children living in Africa where a child dies every minute from malaria, and the disease is responsible for approximately 22 percent of all childhood deaths. As such, malaria infections are a tremendous burden for economic development and public health care systems in endemic... Read the Full Article at www.centerforabetterlife.com/eng/magazine/article_detail.lasso?id=319

 
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