Malaria cases in Uganda dropped by 8.7 per cent in the financial year 2020/21, a report indicated on Thursday. The annual report, issued by the ministry of health last Wednesday, said malaria cases dropped to about 13.6 million in 2020/21 from 14.9 million in 2019/20. ALSO READ: Lawyer allegedly burns nephew with hot knife for […]

Some health stakeholders in the Northeast have welcomed the new malaria vaccine approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO), describing it as instrumental in the fight against the disease. A cross section of the stakeholders expressed joy over the development in seperate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Thursday, in Adamawa, Bauchi, […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has described malaria vaccine developed in Africa and by African scientists, recommended for children in sub-Saharan Africa, as “historic’’

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Wednesday, said that the 2021 Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey (NMIS) would generate the much-needed data to help the country review its strategies. Ehanire, represented by Alhaji Mahmuda Mamman, Permanent Secretary in the ministry, said this in Abuja during the inauguration of the 2021 Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey. […]

In the midst of the tragedy and turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s gratifying to see work continuing in Africa to find new ways of fighting malaria, a very old disease that has been a formidable foe for thousands of years and still kills 400,000 people every year, most of them African children under five years old.