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Why I Work to Stop Malaria
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As a young girl in Ghana, Dr. Ofori-Anyinam watched her family get sick from
malaria
. Today, she is working to develop a malaria vaccine. Watch this video of Dr. Ofori-Anyinam telling her story about what has inspired her work.
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