Church confronts killer diseases in Angola
By Kathy L. Gilbert
LUANDA, Angola (UMNS) -- Sometimes malaria can kill a child before anyone even knows the child has been infected.
The Rev. Domingos Kafuanda says the recent death of an 8-year-old girl in his congregation was a grim reminder of how deadly malaria can be.
The child was singing in the children's choir on Sunday. "She was happy and playing," he says. "We got word she died the next day of malaria."
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Malaria, Poverty kill children in Angola
By Kathy L. Gilbert
MALANJE, Angola (UMNS) — At 3:50 p.m. on Sept. 25, 8-month-old Domingos Antonic died.
Malaria and poverty killed him.
A $10 mosquito net might have saved his life. A clean neighborhood sprayed with pesticide surely would have.
Forty-six percent of all the deaths in Malanje are related to malaria. Malaria is the No. 1 cause of death for children under 5 in this southwest African country.
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