By Chioma Obinna
As the world marks this year’s World Malaria Day with the theme: “Achieving Zero Malaria Begins with Me”, the Lagos State branch of Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, has called on Federal and state governments to be intentional and proactive in the fight against malaria if the country must reduce the high number of cases and deaths in Nigeria to achieve a marked impact on national and international targets.
Making the call in a statement jointly signed by Dr Adetunji Adenekan and Dr Imeh Okon, the Chairman and Secretary of the Lagos NMA, respectively, the Association said Nigeria, particularly, Lagos State, needs to self-audit her role in sustaining the heaviest burden of a preventable and curable disease that can also, be eliminated especially in children under the age of 5 and pregnant women.
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Sydney Russell School pupils make their case during the Debate Mate competition.
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Pupils at a Dagenham school finished runners-up in a national debating competition.
The Sydney Russell School finished ahead of 129 teams across the UK in the Debate Mate competition, discussing curing malaria inspired by lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the final, they debated how education can help beat malaria - which claims a child’s life every two minutes - against the West Midlands’ Shireland Collegiate Academy.
In front of a virtual audience of more than 300 people, the Dagenham pupils argued for the proposition that the best way to cure the disease is education.
Ensuring Progress in the Fight to End Malaria Through Innovation & Collaboration
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April 27, 2021 /CSRwire/ - In commemoration of World Malaria Day 2021, GBCHealth and the Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa (CAMA) hosted
Combat Malaria in Africa: Lessons and Opportunities, a high-level virtual event which brought together the malaria community to discuss how to ensure progress in the fight to end malaria during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
The importance of private sector engagement and cross-sector partnerships for malaria elimination, like CAMA, was a key theme of the event. “I would really encourage private sector players to get behind CAMA and to bring their skills and capabilities to this fight [against malaria],” said Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. He added that the Global Fund values “the energy, the skillset, the capacities that the private sector can bring”
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