“Right now, the statistics are stagnant,” he said. Between 2003 and 2008, 172,000 children between zero and five years-old died every year from malaria in Cote d'Ivoire, he said, equivalent to eight children per hour.
Some 60 percent of consultations at state-run health clinics are malaria-related, he added. At least 20 percent of pregnant women have malaria, frequently causing low birth weights among their infants.
