Sims explains, “It's all about the World Cup. It's using celebrities and soccer players and advocates and politicians — anybody who has a voice to say that malaria can be completely preventable and controllable. You can imagine how many people that will help. A child dies every 30 seconds. So in the length it takes to play a soccer match — 180 people are dead in an hour and a half." Or as she later put it, "three jumbo-jets worth of people die everyday." Horrific, considering these are completely avoidable statistics.
It may be noted that Malaria kills a child in Africa every 30 seconds and nearly one million people each year and around 91% of malaria deaths occur in Africa and of these 85 percent of these are children are under 5 years of age. Half of the World population that is around 3.3 billion people are at risk of malaria worldwide. Sims also added, “$10 will buy a net for a family for five years — $5 for the behavior change, and $5 for the net. You can get an amazing return on your investment because you can end it. If people get treated, they can live. It's a pretty good investment to bet on." We couldn't agree more”.
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