• 91% of all Malaria deaths occur in Africa
• 85% of malaria victims are young children in Africa
• Malaria can account for up to 40% of public health expenditures
• Fighting malaria is key to improving maternal and child health
• There are 247,000,000 annual cases of malaria worldwide
• Every 45 seconds a child dies of malaria
• Trials of insecticide-treated mosquito nets have found that they reduce child mortality by 20%
• Mosquito nets are highly cost-effective, as cost-effective as measles immunization
• Malaria No More has distributed 2.6 million mosquito nets in 13 African countries to cover over 5,000,000 people
• Malaria No More stands as a case study of how aid can change
• Malaria costs Africa at least $12 billion in lost annual GDP
• Malaria affects 5 of the 8 Millennium Development Goals
• In 11 African countries, childhood mosquito net use has increased 10x in the past decade
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