South Sudan, Hai Matara village, 2017. Akwor Apagin, 2 years old with her mother Ariet, 22 years old, under a mosquito net covering their bed. Akwor has just contracted malaria. Dr. Isaac Mapeer, deputy head of Malaria Control Program at South Sudan’s Ministry of Health, said: “This year’s malaria is the most severe the country has ever seen,” There is a total of over 900,000 registered cases of malaria,”, adding that 4,073 deaths were recorded since February, this year, while 2,000 deaths were reported in 2016.
