Pediatric malaria drugs so essential to save childrens lives are now available in 88 percent of public health centers in trial districts, nearly double the 51 percent availability rate in control districts.

Scaled up nationwide, simple but smart steps, such as hiring a district-level planner to ensure smooth delivery of drugs to rural public health centers, could save as many as 27,000 children in Zambia between now and 2015. In fact, child mortality due to malaria could be cut by up to 37 percent with these changes. Read more: http://go.worldbank.org/6V8KKHHU10

Source: The World Bank