Esta Sitima lives far from a health center, so she brings her 4-month-old child with fever symptoms to a village health worker who is trained to diagnose and treat malaria. Esta already lost two children to malaria, but this time the odds of her child surviving are in her favor: Since these health workers - trained with support from the Global Fund - started treating children in the region, malaria death rates dropped dramatically in her village and nearby communities.
Take a journey and meet the men and women fighting to save a new nation’s children from the scourge of malaria:
www.theglobalfund.org/en/closeup/southsudan-acommunityrises/
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