Who is most at risk of getting very sick and dying from malaria?
Every year, P. falciparum malaria causes the deaths of more than one million people, most of them sub-Saharan African infants and children. Malaria also contributes to anemia in children and pregnant women, low birthweight, premature birth, and neurological damage. An estimated 300 million to 500 million cases of malaria occur every year, and roughly 3.2 billion people are at risk of contracting the disease.
