kramea/goodbyemalaria

A field worker app for malaria prevention in Africa # 🦟 MalarIA ### A field-worker decision agent for malaria prevention **Malaria is beatable. Timing is everything.** It's curable, preventable, and already gone from dozens of countries. In **Mozambique** and **Malawi** it still kills every day — and on the ground the difference is doing the **right thing at the right moment**, before the mosquitoes win. MalarIA is a WhatsApp agent that puts that judgement in a field worker's pocket: ask about your district in your own language, and get the situation *now*, the right intervention, and whether the weather will hold — in seconds. 🌍 **Website:** dimension-privileges-loving-wallet.trycloudflare.com > **The right tool at the wrong time saves no one.** > Spray before the rains and it washes off. Hand out nets after the peak and the cases already happened. Timing is not a detail — it *is* the intervention. --- ## The reality Malaria is curable and preventable — yet it remains one of the deadliest diseases on Earth, and sub-Saharan Africa carries almost the entire burden. | | | |---|---| | **263M** | malaria cases worldwide in 2023 (WHO) | | **~597K** | deaths in 2023 — mostly children under 5 | | **~95%** | of all cases & deaths are in the WHO African Region | | **10.2M** | estimated cases/yr in **Mozambique** — 295 per 1,000 at risk (WHO GHO, 2024) | | **6.4M** | estimated cases/yr in **Malawi** — 295 per 1,000 at risk (WHO GHO, 2024) | | **4 in 5** | malaria deaths in Africa are children under five | ## The front line **The most important soldier against malaria is the field worker.** No lab, no policy, no app stops a single case on its own. Prevention happens when a field worker reaches a village, reads the ground, and acts — spraying a wall, treating a pool of water, hanging a net — at exactly the moment it counts. Every one of those actions only works in a narrow window. Get there in time and a village is protected. Arrive late — after the rains, after the hatch, after the peak — and the very same effort i …