The article discusses that though the anti-malaria campaign in Africa has been largely successful, population explosion is posing a challenge to it. It focuses on research on the anti-malaria campaign in Africa conducted by Abdisalan Noor and his colleagues which analyzed methods for identifying malarial parasites in the blood, as well as social and environmental factors causing the disease. According to Noor's report, countries like South Sudan are at higher risk of malaria infections.