Photo: PIXABAY State governments and healthcare professionals have said there is need for Nigeria to ensure that zero malaria target is achieved, just as they reeled out strategies deployed in combatting the disease in the various states across the country. They stated this during the St Racheal’s Pharma 2021 World Malaria Day Colloquium with the theme: Reaching the Zero Malaria Target. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, St. Racheal’s Pharma, Akinjide Adeosun, said in order to reach zero malaria target in Nigeria, there must be increased funding for anti-malaria initiatives, as well as optimise existing anti malaria funds utilisation in all states across the country.
Views: Visits 10 By Chioma Obinna As the world battle with the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and other stakeholders in the campaign to eliminate malaria are calling for appropriate funding for malaria as it was done for COVID to avert what they described as ‘unacceptable’ deaths from the disease. According to them, the latest report from the World Health Organisation, WHO showed that an estimated 90,000 Nigerians died of malaria in 2020 and if nothing urgent is done, the deaths which reduced from 150 a decade ago will double. The experts also lamented the lack of capability to develop a vaccine for the elimination of malaria in Nigeria even as other many countries have leveraged science and technology to end malaria.
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