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INTERVIEW: How do you quantify malaria’s economic damage?

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Despite decades of interventions, malaria is still one of the biggest killer diseases in Africa continent.

In 2015 alone, an estimated 429 000 people died of it according to the World Health Organization, 90% of them in Africa. Beyond the lives lost, how much economic damage does malaria really do to sub-Saharan economies?

That is a question CGTN’s Ramah Nyang explored in conversation with the CEO of the African Medical & Research Foundation.

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