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Malaria - MSF's frustrating challenge
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© Jake Price
Most of Dr Jorge Arturo Gonzalez Duran's day is spent meeting with patients. On a typical day, he meets with hundreds of people who wait for hours to see him. It is not uncommon for many patients to start out when it is dark in the early morning to reach the clinic. Here he performes a malaria test for a patient who complained of aches and a fever.
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In the last few weeks a new disease made the media spotlight. The Marburg virus, which has killed over 200 people in Angola, has all the drama of a Hollywood film. Meanwhile, out of the media spotlight, another disease continues, silently, to kill up to two million people every year. Malaria remains the biggest source of the illnesses faced by MSF, and is one of our most frustrating challenges.
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