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When Janet Aqua’s 11-year-old son, Ray, became ill with malaria, Janet wasted no time in taking him to a nearby clinic. In the rural Ghanaian town where Janet lives, malaria strikes often and wreaks havoc on lives and livelihoods. Janet knows firsthand how fast malaria can take the life of a child. She has already lost two children, a four-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son, to malaria. When Ray became listless and developed a fever, she closed down her street-side kiosk-her family’s primary source of income-and took him straightaway to the doctor. Janet also asked for an insecticide-treated net from the clinic’s free distribution program. Unfortunately, clinic supplies were running low and the clinic nurse said Janet could only have a net if she had a child under the age of one. Read more …
