MALARIA: Kanatar, partners sensitise 2,000 in Lagos
To mark this year’s World Malaria Day with the theme: End Malaria for Good”, Kanatar companies in Nigeria in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, WHO, Rotary Club and Non-Such HMO is targeting over 1,000 Lagosians including 250 pregnant women for malaria awareness, testing and treatment.
3.2 billion people at risk of malaria globally – WHO report
The World Health Organisation (WHO), has said that about 3.2 billion people remained at risk to malaria attack globally.
Congo, Nigeria and India Malaria hardest-hit countries – WHO
The fight against malaria has saved 3.3 million lives worldwide since 2000 but the mosquito-borne disease still killed 627,000 people last year, mainly children in Africa, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
What About Malaria?
MINISTER of Health Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu last year announced that more than 90 per cent of Nigeria’s population, 150.3 million (the population of ECOWAS countries without Nigeria), is at risk of malaria infection. His prescribed emergency plan was use of more mosquito nets.
Nigerian medical experts applaud investigational malaria vaccine
NIGERIAN medical professionals have applauded the early-stage clinical evaluation of an investigational malaria vaccine known as the PfSPZ Vaccine, conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Malaria hurts Nigeria GDP – Don
Prof. Uade Ugbomoiko of the Department of Zoology, University of Ilorin, has said that malaria is taking a heavy toll on Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
