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I lost my father to malaria at the age of twelve, and thus have had direct experience of the deadliness of the diseases spread by mosquitoes. I live in the UK now but I originally come from Namibia, in the south-western corner of Africa.

I lost my father to malaria at the age of twelve, and thus have had direct experience of the deadliness of the diseases spread by mosquitoes

My grandmother, who passed away last year at the ripe old age of 106, spent more than the last 30 years of her life blind, also due to malaria. I heard Jo Yirrell’s heroic story on Radio 4, in which her son travelled to Ghana for his gap year and sadly died as a result of a malaria infection. I felt incredibly moved at Jo’s humbleness, humanity and compassion.

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