let us eradicate malaria

My malaria eradication diary.

Malaria is a worldwide menace that thrives mostly in the hot tropical regions of the world. It is the biggest killer of children and infants in the Africa. Statistics say that malaria kills a child every thirty seconds. That is a mind boggling figure; but that is not all. Malaria is a disease that affects all ages and not just children. It is deadly in adults as well; and every year millions of man hours are lost to malaria.

It is a debilitating illness that renders a person weak and ineffective. The most common symptoms are headache, feverishness, weakness; and in children, stomach ache which may include vomiting and or stooling. In children, if the fever is not quickly brought down it may lead to convulsions and ultimately to death. The death rate for adults is almost as high, especially in localities where healthcare is not readily or cheaply available. Although malaria drugs abound and are quite affordable, there are a lot of adulterated versions of most drugs. Unscrupulous merchants take advantage of the widespread nature f the disease to reproduce fakes of most malaria drugs for profit. This makes the matter more complicated because when people use these drugs they either die more quickly or other more serious complications arise from the usage of these fake drugs.

What then is the solution? Malaria is very easily treatable with the prompt administration of the right drugs. Nobody needs to die from malaria. More importantly, the old adage that prevention is better than cure applies readily to malaria. It is very preventable and can be completely eradicated, which is the purpose of this blog. How can malaria be prevented or stopped altogether from decimating our society? As with most things in life, the big dream has a smaller version. The dream is to make the world malaria free, but we will start small. We will start by making our homes malaria-free; then our communities and localities; then the states or regions where we live and on to our countries and continents and one day the dream will become a reality. The world will say goodbye to malaria forever.