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Is Africa at a Turning Point for Malaria?
How does malaria affect Africa? More than 95 percent of the world’s malaria cases are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2022, the mosquito-borne disease killed roughly 580,000 people in the region, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The …