Kenya World Malarıa Day

epa02130392 A young Kenyan girl lifts an awning as she waits for her turn at a makeshift free clinic set up just outside of the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, 24 April 2010, ahead of the annual World Malaria Day on 25 April 2010, a global effort instituted by the World Health Assembly to provide effective control of malaria around the world. A deadly mosquito-born disease kills nearly 1 million lives per year worldwide, 80 per cent of which occur in sub-Saharan Africa. According to a report by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), an African child dies of malaria every 30 secondsit causes an annual loss of 12 billion US dollars (8.9 billion euro), which is 1.3 per cent of the continent's gross domestic product.  EPA/DAI KUROKAWA