By Margaret Reynolds | Vice president
In 2014, I volunteered in Katulikire clinic during the height of malaria season. The nets distributed to the students are essential because they become the nets used by mothers to protect themselves and their young babies, who will sleep under the net with their mother for a couple years, from malaria.
That day some babies came in with malaria. One baby was anemic and dying, and we did not have the ability to treat him, so we referred him to the hospital. Another few could stay at the health center. Then, a mother who had given birth at 30 weeks was having convulsions and high fever. A blood smear was very positive. We started the treatment, gave fluids. Malaria is a huge cause of premature labor—maybe the greatest cause. The mom survived and took her tiny baby back to the village.
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