Life cycle: Malaria
If left untreated, the disease can cause death, with a higher mortality rate among pregnant women and children.
Lifelines
About the show
Lifelines: The Quest For Global Health is Al Jazeera’s cross-platform project profiling the extraordinary work of global health workers as they tackle eight deadly diseases and conditions that afflict vulnerable communities across the globe. Online, on screen and on the ground in affected communities, we share their uplifting stories.
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Health workers dispensing the polio vaccine in Pakistan face violence and resistance as they go about their work.
Could a “prawn ladder” built into a dam wall aid in the fight against bilharzia in the Senegal basin?
A man from a leprosy colony in India talks about the difficulties he has faced since being diagnosed with the disease.
Health hero Rachna Kumari explains the devastating social exclusion cured leprosy sufferers still face.
Meet the scientists at ‘Mosquito city’ who are using unusual and innovative methods to tackle malaria.
A team in South Sudan tries to find out where a cattle herder with Guinea worm may have infected communal water sources.
Why is Africa still the most dangerous place in the world for mothers and babies?
How a small organisation seized on Coca-Cola’s global reach to save the lives of children in Zambia
Will health workers overcome the violence to eliminate Polio?
Will health workers in Pakistan overcome political and religious tensions to vaccinate children against polio?
