This piece originally ran on the PMI Impact Malaria blog.
Like clockwork every year for years, Ramatou Moussa’s 10-year-old son Salim Adamou came down with fever and would be sick for days with malaria during rainy season, when transmission is highest. Ramatou would sit by his bed, worried whether he would beat the infection this time and make it through the next year. In many ways, a parent’s whole world stops when their child is sick with malaria. “You have to imagine if your child is sick, psychologically you are affected. You cannot go to the fields to work or even manage your daily concerns.”
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