For what it’s worth, GiveWell recommends the Against Malaria Foundation:<p><a href="https://www.givewell.org/charities/amf" rel="nofollow">https://www.givewell.org/charities/amf</a>
Do you have a source on this 3000 kids a day? That's over 1M children a year. Assuming most of those are in Africa, you're claiming something like a 2% childhood mortality from malaria alone. The all-cause childhood mortality in Africa is considered astronomical at 7.8%. The WHO (UNICEF) says the death rate of malaria in Africa is more like 1 every 2 minutes, which comes out to 720 a day.<p>One dead child is too many and I worry that number inflation only makes the fight harder.
The discussion around malaria is always really strange to me, because it's so close to home and yet so far away at the same time.<p>At this point I've frankly lost count of the number of times I've contracted malaria, but I'm willing to bet it's well over fifty. I <i>understand</i>, theoretically, that it kills an obscene amount of people a year, but it doesn't really sink in that it's actually a deadly disease. I've never felt fear for my life while sick with it.<p>I wonder how much simply having access to the bare minimum of standard healthcare would reduce the number of fatalities per year.
Malaria is probably going to be one of the hardest maladies to overcome. There was some promise with a vaccine, but it looks like that was fairly disappointing. The selective pressure is so high with malaria that sickle cell anaemia is a fairly common congenital disease that if one is homozygous for can be lethal in early age; conventional medicine has significantly increased life expectancy, but it's still fairly poor. Hopefully, it will be to the point where it can be controlled because the African continent has had its economies ravaged by it.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria#Economic_impact" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria#Economic_impact</a>
Serious question - Why can't we put our minds to it and kill them all?<p>Why can't we banish this mass killer and cause of immense suffering to humans and animals alike.<p>I haven't seen any compelling evidence that they form any vital component of ecosystems apart from obviously spreading disease and applying some adapation pressure - which we could eliminate like we have done with lots of other killers.
Being peaceful by nature, but also highly allergic to mosquitos, I'm cool with completely eradicating these little flying vampires and the ecological collapse that would ensue. Or not as the case may be <a href="https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html</a>
We already have a surefire low tech mosquito killer - mosquito bats or zappers. They work well, no chemicals just electricity and batteries.<p>We however don't have sharp eyes to track the movement of the stealth suckers. Nor the reflexes to position the bat at the right time while pressing the buzzer.<p>Blow up the size of the mosquito bat to foldable 6ft x 4ft mosquito killer and let probability do its work.<p>The humans in the room are all the attractant this mosquito killer from hell would need.
It's not widely known but Bill Gates is heavily invested in the fight against Malaria for a long time now. Billions of investment.<p>He's responsible for saving millions of lives.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation#Funds_for_grants_in_developing_countries" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat...</a>