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If you want to help human beings alive right now, there are few better places to give than global health.

Diseases that have been largely eradicated in the US still claim hundreds of thousands of lives abroad. In 2022, the most recent year for which there’s data, ten Americans died of malaria; all acquired it abroad. But the World Health Organization estimates that worldwide, 600,000 people died of it that year, most of them children in Africa.

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If you want to see how the sausage is made — and what other high-impact options exist — keep going. Check out the following causes: • Fighting malaria • Giving kids