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Two babies with severe malaria in Gerihun clinic, Sierra Leone. They are waiting to to be taken by ambulance to Gondama Hospital near Bo. Malaria is endemic in Sierra Leone and is the number one killer, with children under five and pregnant women the most vulnerable.

In the Gondama Referral Centre, children under five represent 75 percent of the total admissions, 92 percent of these children are there because of malaria or related complications. Every month an average of 7,000 confirmed cases are treated with an increase up to 10,000 during the peak malaria season.