Much like diarrhea, malaria is one of the main causes of death worldwide, especially for children under the age of five.

In numbers, half of the world’s population, 3.2 billion people, continue to be at risk of contracting this disease. Furthermore, malaria transmissions through mosquitoes are prevalent in 97 countries, with Sub-Saharan Africa being the most affected region.

According to Unicef, 2015 had an estimated 214 million malaria cases and 438,000 actual deaths. In Angola, for example, it is seen as one of the biggest killers in general and one of the most predominant causes of death for under five-year-olds.

These are overwhelming, and quite frankly, scary figures. The data is extracted from areas where the war against malaria is an ongoing theme. As scary as they sound, these numbers used to be a lot higher; between 2000 and 2015 malaria incidence has actually fallen by 37 percent and malaria deaths by an astonishing 60 percent.