A project run by the WHO Malaria Programme with a grant from the Government of Canada seeks to reduce deaths in children under 5 years of age living in remote rural areas.

The idea is to build capacity and equip community volunteers to recognize, diagnose and treat malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia - the 3 top childhood killers. Between 2013 and 2015, more than 7500 community health workers living in a thousand villages across 5 countries in sub-Saharan Africa will be trained to care for 1.2 million children.