NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Over the course of this year, in cities, towns and villages across the tropical belt that cuts through sub-Saharan Africa, medics will begin administering doses of vaccines against malaria to millions of people. This promises to be one of the greatest public health efforts ever undertaken, helping to mitigate the vast toll that the mosquito-borne disease has claimed for millennia.

Photos courtesy of Tom.