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Come also to the village of Vonzua in western Liberia, where a woman named Bendu Kiadu is mourning her child Gbessey, who was just 1 year old.
Gbessey caught malaria in March. In normal times, a community health worker would have administered simple medicines for malaria, and the United States noted just last year that it provided “vital” and “critical” support to fight malaria in Liberia. But the closing of U.S.A.I.D. led to the collapse of some supply chains, so health workers had no malaria medicine to offer Gbessey.
Kiadu rushed the child to a clinic, but it, too, had run out of malaria medicine. The next day, Gbessey died.
Now Kiadu’s youngest child, Osman, is also seriously ill with malaria, and the community health workers and the clinic still have no malaria medicine. She worries that she will lose two of her children within months.
“Our children are dying because of a lack of medicine,” Kiadu told me.