UN calls for more efforts to curb malaria deaths (3)

UNICEF supports national efforts to train and provide community health workers with simple tools such as malaria rapid diagnostic tests so that children receive medicine quickly when needed.

However, in Africa the proportion of treated children who receive a first-line treatment such as an ACT is less than 30 percent in most countries.

UNICEF, with governments, donors and other partners, also looks for innovative ways to reach the most vulnerable and hardest to reach children in pursuit of universal coverage.