Join us in the fight for the lives of malaria patients!

Democratic Republic of Congo

The second largest country of Africa, full of paradoxes. On one hand, it is rich in natural resources (including cobalt, copper, coltan, crude oil, diamonds, gold); on the other hand, its inhabitants are among the poorest in the world. For decades, the DRC has been suffering from prolonged conflicts that have led to one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world.

Overview:
  • 77% of the population live in extreme poverty for less than $1.90 a day
  • 16% of the country’s population, i.e. over 13 million people, require immediate humanitarian assistance
  • 13,6 million people are deprived of access to safe water sources and proper sanitary and hygienic facilities
  • numerous outbreaks of deadly diseases, including measles, malaria, cholera and Ebola
  • about 10% of all malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa occurred here
Our hospital carries over

27 000

medical procedures per year
We treat about

7000

malaria patients every year
Our midwives delivered about

953

babies in 2023

10.06.2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed 130 000 lives in the last 15 months on the African continent. At the same time, more than 400 000 patients have died there from malaria. Most of them are children. Doctors and staff at public health institutes make no secret of their frustration. Covid has grabbed the world’s attention because it also affects wealthy countries. It has mobilised global resources on an unprecedented scale, pushing the boundary of what was previously impossible in the pharmaceutical world. As a result, mass vaccination programmes were launched less than a year after the pandemic was declared. Today’s best malaria vaccine candidate, a formulation known as R21, has been in the phase of trials and formal procedures for over a decade.

Burkina Faso is one of six African countries that account for half of malaria deaths worldwide. In a country of 20 million people, 11 million patients are diagnosed annually. 4000 of them die. Malaria remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases. More than 220 million people get it every year, and more than half a million of them die.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is another red dot on the malaria map of the world. The hospital that we support in Ntamugenga, cut off from the world for months on end by borders closed due to COVID-19, saved nearly 8,000 lives from malaria last year. 4643 of them were children under the age of 5. More than 600 young patients needed blood transfusions to survive, and we managed to do it. Let us not start believing that we can do nothing. We will not speed up research into the vaccine, that is a fact, but we can make a real difference to the fate of our patients by supporting a hospital that fights for their lives every day.

Join us in the fight for the lives of malaria patients!

Urgent Help Needed

Save the Pharmacy for the Poorest in Togo

This amount will allow for equipping pharmacy shelves for the first half of the year. Ania and Mateusz will take care of this, and they will fly to Togo in February and fill the shelves with the most essential antibiotics, antimalarial drugs, and pain relievers. The Saoudé Pharmacy has people to save. It cannot succeed without your support.

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We already have :
3,419 EUR
We need:
6,667 EUR