Enemies of humanity

After being infected again with malaria last July, I spent almost a month in a Kampala hospital. Paying for my treatment was extremely difficult, as it is for most Ugandan and African families. I was lucky I could scrape the money together. Many families cannot afford proper treatment. Where and how can they get the money to go back to the hospital again and again, every time a family member gets malaria, when they also need food, clothes and so many other things--or malaria makes them so sick that they can't work for weeks or even months? Many parents can do nothing except watch their loved ones die in agony, and then give them a simple burial. Far too many people still die from malaria every year in Africa, the vast majority of them women and children. Too many more die from lung and intestinal diseases, because we don't have electricity, natural gas, clean water, or decent modern homes, clinics and hospitals.