Kenya World Malarıa Day

KENYA WORLD MALARIA DAYEPA02130362 A YOUNG KENYAN GİRL CRİES AS A DOCTOR (R) TRİES TO EXAMİNE HER AT A MAKESHİFT FREE CLİNİC SET UP JUST OUTSİDE OF TH

Kenya World Malarıa Day

epa02130362 A young Kenyan girl cries as a doctor (R) tries to examine her at a makeshift free clinic set up just outside of the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, 24 April 2010, ahead of the annual World Malaria Day on 25 April 2010, a global effort instituted by the World Health Assembly to provide effective control of malaria around the world. A deadly mosquito-born disease kills nearly 1 million lives per year worldwide, 80 per cent of which occur in sub-Saharan Africa. According to a report by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), an African child dies of malaria every 30 secondsit causes an annual loss of 12 billion US dollars (8.9 billion euro), which is 1.3 per cent of the continent's gross domestic product.  EPA/DAI KUROKAWA

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