No child should die from malaria. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/10/no-child-should-die-from-malaria-thierno-abdoulaye-baldes-story/
A child arrived at a health facility in Guinea, sick enough that clinicians knew what he needed.
They wrote the prescription and told his parents to go buy it, because the facility had none.
He got worse before they returned. He died.
Thierno Abdoulaye Balde wrote that sentence in a peer learning course called Malaria: turning the tide.
A footnote says the child was his nephew.
258 health professionals wrote 1,534 accounts like it for The Geneva Learning Foundation's Teach to Reach network.
In 84 percent of those stories, the family had already tried a street seller, a private pharmacy, or a traditional healer before reaching a clinic.
Nearly half of the health workers who noticed this did something programmes rarely fund: they went and talked to the seller directly, face to face, in the back room after the rush.
One doctor in Niger put i
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