Globally, malaria mortality rates dropped by nearly 30 percent from 2000 to 2013. In the same time, deaths of children under 5 in the worst-affected parts of Africa decreased by 58 percent.
We now know how to prevent, diagnose, and cure malaria. And though we’ve accomplished much, it is still a major health problem.
About half of the world’s population — more than 3.4 billion people — is at risk of contracting the mosquito-borne disease. Each year there are more than 200 million cases, and more than half a million malaria sufferers die. In Africa, where most malaria cases occur, every minute a child dies from the disease.
In this World Vision video from a village in Zimbabwe in 2011, 12-year-old Constance sounds a cry of courage and perseverance in battling the global killer, malaria.
Join Constance and #DefeatMalaria, because, as she says, "Enough is enough!"
Writen by Kathryn Reid, edited by Meredith Hastings