PHOTO OF THE WEEK (18 December 2014) - Early in the morning in Yamoussoukro, workers offload shipping containers full of white bales of mosquito nets, moving the contents onto trucks for delivery. Each of the hundreds of white bales contains 50 insecticide-treated nets which will be given to families to prevent potentially deadly mosquito bites at night, when malarial mosquitos are most active. Cote d’Ivoire is considered endemic for malaria, which means that the entire population is at risk. To address the problem, Cote d’Ivoire’s Ministry of Health, UNICEF, WHO and CARE have organized a mass distribution campaign, supported by the Global Fund, to deliver 13 million nets, from cities to the most remote villages in the country. Across Africa, around 460,000 children under the age of five die each year because they are bitten by mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite.