MSF, Doctors Without Borders, our activities in South Sudan
Each year, malaria kills nearly half a million people. 70 per cent of all deaths are children under five years of age.

The disease is easy enough to treat, but access to the most effective treatments remains inadequate. 90 per cent of all malaria deaths occur on the African continent. Impregnated mosquito nets are expensive and out of reach for many. The parasite which causes malaria is beginning to show resistance in parts of Asia to the most effective drug we have. And there are no new drugs in the development pipeline, meaning we could be left without effective options in the future.

Quick facts about malaria

 
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

CAR: A nationwide measles epidemic threatens children's lives

Latest News 5 May 2020
 
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Burkina Faso: The COVID-19 pandemic will worsen the current humanitarian crisis

Latest News 21 Apr 2020
 
Malaria

Burkina Faso: an unprecedented humanitarian emergency for the country

Latest News 23 Mar 2020
 
Malaria

Trish Newport reflects on working in an MSF Ebola Treatment Centre in the DRC

Fieldworkers Stories 13 Mar 2020
 
Pneumonia

South Sudan: Thousands flee into the bush as conflict intensifies

Latest News 4 Mar 2020
 
Malaria

Burkina Faso: MSF scales up assistance to people affected by increasing levels of violence

Latest News 24 Feb 2020