World Malaria Report 2011

The World Health Organization’s World Malaria Report 2011 is out…and my photograph of two children under a mosquito net in Nigeria is on the cover! Check it out!

Cover of the 2011 World Malaria Report by the World Health Organization; photograph by Irene Abdou. Two children peek out from under a Permanet long lasting insecticide treated mosquito net in the Garki area of Abuja. Sleeping under a mosquito net every night prevents malariawhich is transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito. Globallymalaria kills 1,000,000 people every yearmost of them pregnant women and children under five.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 at 4:34 PM. It is filed under Africa in My Heart and tagged with , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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