3.3 billion people in 106 countries are at risk of malaria. Each year malaria causes roughly half a million deaths, mostly among African children. This World Malaria Day we recognise the excellent work of organisations working to control malaria and learn how we all can help.
We are hosting a 1-hour chat with Rob Mather (Against Malaria Foundation), Maddy Marasciulo (Malaria Consortium) and Alekos Simoni (Target Malaria) this weekend for World Malaria Day, and we’d love to hear your suggestions on what questions we should ask them.
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This event is held simultaneously online at the following times on April 25th:
- London: Sunday 9:00 pm
- Berlin: Sunday 10:00 pm
- New York: Sunday 4:00 pm
- Los Angeles: Sunday 1:00 pm
- Sydney: Monday 6:00 am (April 26)
- Auckland: Monday 8:00 am (April 26)
One thing that I haven't thought much about until recently is that almost all causes of deaths in Low income/low-middle income countries are modeled rather than aggregations of recorded causes of death. So how much should we actually trust the statistics on things like "440,000 people died last year from malaria (or X,000 from Y country)?" Should we assume it's within a ~20% band of reasonableness, or is our actual understanding of the situation much blurrier than that?
Of course, every death from preventable disease is one too many, but it's good to have a clear/crisp/accurate understanding of the world to prioritize accordingly.