HORN OF AFRICA (BP)--Every 30 seconds, a child in Africa dies of malaria.
But it doesn't have to happen. Malaria often can be prevented. When that's not possible, malaria can be treated. And it can be done simply and inexpensively.
In one rural area of the Horn of Africa, Southern Baptists are helping with a project that aims to greatly reduce the number of people who suffer from malaria by using a simple remedy that can be readily available, even in the most remote areas.
Drawing on a little more than $10,000 from the Southern Baptist World Hunger Fund, local believers and Southern Baptist field partners are distributing starts of Artemisia annua, a plant that has proven effective in treating malaria when its dried leaves are brewed as a tea. Use of Artemisia to treat fever dates back more than 17 centuries to ancient China.
"This area has a population of more than 4 million people and one of the highest incidence rates of malaria in the whole country," said William Arnold*, a development worker who is a field partner of Baptist Global Response ... Read More
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