New Vision Podcast

Malaria: 24 hours to save a life

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A new campaign in Uganda is turning the fight against malaria into a race against time. The 24.2 Hours Initiative has a simple goal: to save lives, especially among children under five, who account for most malaria deaths in the country.

Raziah Athman reports from Iganga, eastern Uganda, where one mother’s desperate journey to save her child shows what’s at stake.