Luc Serme A member of the research team surveys a mother in Boulsa, Burkina Faso, about her district's seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign.Last year on World Malaria Day, Burkina Faso's president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, pledged to eradicate malaria in the country by 2030. While the disease remains one of the country's most serious public health problems, recent research gives hope that the ambitious goal can be achieved.