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Malaria Control Program - Stories from the Field

1 October 2009
Microscope a Powerful Tool in Malaria Fight
Microscopist Marino Castillo pricks the finger of five-year-old girl Silvana Mayor and draws blood onto a glass slide. The girl's shirt is bright yellow, but her face is weary. Her mother says the girl has had a fever for several days, and the mother is worried that she has malaria.

4 February 2008
Bed nets offer blanket of protection
This article was originally featured in the Feb. 4, 2008, issue of the Emory Report.
On a clear May morning, farmer Sahlu Wolde woke as usual at 5 a.m., but instead of heading to his fields, grabbed his walking stick and began a four-hour hike to the health clinic nearest to his lowland farm in northern Ethiopia.

12 June 2007
New Malaria Program Blankets Areas of Ethiopia with Bed Nets
Ethiopian farmer Mamo Tesfaye is no stranger to disease. Four years ago, he could only sit idly outside his home as the growing season came and went. Afflicted with river blindness, he could not see well enough to work his land or provide for his children.