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It's a huge win for humanity if they can improve it significantly. Just a few stats:

"The WHO estimates that in 2015 there were 214 million new cases of malaria resulting in 438,000 deaths" [1].

"The majority of cases (65%) occur in children under 15" [2] years old."

1. http://www.who.int/malaria/publications/world-malaria-report...

2. Murray et al. (2012). "Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: A systematic analysis". Lancet. 379




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