Abuja, Nigeria
CNN
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Cuts to US-funded malaria programs are adding to a host of issues confronting Congolese mother Mwayuma Idi Feza, whose city, Goma, is at the center of the country’s intensifying conflict and run by a vicious militia.
“I have a child who is sick. He has had malaria for a week and a few days now,” Feza, 36, told CNN of her 1-year-old son, whose fever she suspects is caused by the mosquito-borne illness.
She is also experiencing symptoms of the disease, she said. “I’m feeling cold. I feel bitterness in my mouth.” The single mother is out of work and said she can barely afford food, much less malaria treatment for her and her baby.
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