• Malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, about
3,000 children every day.
• Over a quarter of all young child deaths in Africa
occur due to malaria.
• Over one million people die from malaria each
year, mostly children under five, with nine out of ten
malaria cases occurring in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Pregnant women and their unborn children are
particularly vulnerable to malaria, as a result of low
birth weight and maternal anaemia.
• Infants born to mothers with malaria are likely to
have low birth weight – the single greatest risk factor
for death during the first months of life.