Count infections, not just malaria deaths

In high‑transmission settings children often suffer multiple malaria episodes per year, producing enormous non‑fatal morbidity (fever, pain, nausea, lost days of schooling) that standard death‑focused metrics ignore. Valuing interventions only by lives saved undervalues prevention that averts thousands of painful infections and large social costs. — Reframing burden metrics toward infections would shift funding, evaluation and cost‑effectiveness of malaria programs, changing donor priorities and national health policy.