World Malaria Day

Under the Rwandan government's leadership, we threw every possible malaria intervention at the disease -- nets, drugs, household spraying and local capacity-building -- and we did it faster than ever.

It is rare that we can envision the elimination of a specific disease. With malaria, we can grasp that end almost tangibly.

Even as many African countries continue to make hard-earned economic progress, the financial toll of malaria remains a roadblock to these economies reaching their full potential.

It is within our power to save, perhaps, a million of our fellow citizens by helping to provide mosquito netting to people in the world's most poverty-afflicted areas.