Rain brings malaria: Somalia's wet season fuels another preventable health crisis

Journal Pre-proof year after year, the rains come, and with them, preventable deaths, particularly among women and children, continue to occur.The international community's response has been a cycle of insufficient and often reactive funding, which perpetuates the instability it aims to alleviate.The crisis in Somalia is a stark moral indictment of the international community.This demonstrates that we have effectively accepted a certain level of preventable suffering as an unfortunate, unchangeable reality of life in a fragile state.This is not fate; it is a choice.It is a choice to underfund health systems, ignore the nexus between climate, conflict, and disease, and accept the loss of children to a disease we know how to cure.The resilience of the Somali people is extraordinary, but it is not a substitute for the action that is urgently needed.To change the narrative, the world must move beyond charity and embrace a commitment to justice by investing in sustainable health systems that can break the cycle of malaria and build a healthier and more stable future.