The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr Mansur Dada, stated this on Tuesday while briefing newsmen on the exercise in Bauchi.
According to Dada, the distribution is a collaboration between the state Government, the National Malaria Elimination Initiative and Global funds in its continuous efforts to combat malaria.
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The House resolved that the government should mandate the Federal Ministry of Health to fumigate endemic areas to curb the disease in the country
Michael Boots, a University of California, Berkeley, professor of integrative biology, who worked with his colleagues at Exeter University in the United Kingdom on the project, disclosed this on Monday in San Francisco, United States of America
Ahmed-Gandi said: “These deaths were recorded out of the 382 patients who were hospitalised in the hospital during the period under review
Henshaw decried the continued harm malaria causes in Nigerian homes as well as the ignorance and misinformation about fevers. She lamented the fact that citizens underplay malaria or describe it in endearing terms. Growing up, she recalls, “In those days, people spoke about malaria as if it belonged to them with expressions like ‘I have malaria,’ ‘my malaria’ and ‘ordinary malaria.’ Surprisingly, after many years, these terms are still common place among family members, colleagues, and friends, irrespective of class or level of education
Odey-Chu said the figures highlighted the need for continued awareness and renewed commitment for the prevention of Malaria, which she described as a life-threatening disease
As we commemorate World Malaria Day on April 25, we celebrate this success. The United States, as the world’s leading donor in global health, remains strongly committed to working with Nigeria and all our partners to intensify the efforts to free people from the tremendous burden of malaria
China’s Tu Youyou was awarded the other half of the prize for discovering artemisinin, a drug that has slashed malaria deaths and has become the mainstay of fighting the mosquito-borne disease
A major expansion of the WHO-recommended core package of measures, vector control, chemoprevention, diagnostic testing and treatment has proved both cost effective and efficient
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said Thursday in Abuja that the Federal Government is working to enhance medical services in the country by acquiring new technology and strengthening bilateral cooperation with countries like Cuba that have clear competence and expertise in the medical field.
She said that cervical cancer was killing more people worldwide than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria put together
The Regional Director of the organisation, Dr. Luis Sambo, made the disclosure at a ceremony to mark the 2014 World Malaria Day in Calabar, Cross River State, with the theme: “Invest in the Future, Defeat Malaria
Kayode said that the money would be spent on anti malaria drugs, Rapid Diagnostic Test Kits and other preventive measures
WHO stated this in its report titled: “World Malaria Report 2013” released in New York made available to North American Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday
Though the results were promising, more extensive field testing will be required, the researchers wrote. Nevertheless, it marks the first time any vaccine trial has shown 100% success in protecting subjects from the mosquito-borne tropical disease, which sickens more than 200 million a year and killed about 660,000 in 2010
HIV/AIDS occurrence, which stood at 3.40 per cent in 2008, a year after Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, assumed office, dropped to 2.50 per cent in 2010, rose in 2011 to 2.60, and blown to 2.90 per cent in 2012
Manguele said the gains were still low in bigger countries with complex epidemiological settings and operational needs
The country had signed the funding-conformity, which brought about $1.5 billion since 2004, when $971 million grant was approved, the total Global Fund assistance to Nigeria. The Global Fund had given the country a grant of $225 million (about N36 billion) to assist in the fight against malaria, as was contained in the financial periodicals in the country of September 13, 2012. A statement in that national broadsheet, said that the Minister of Health believed the grant was a harbinger to forming a new approach of tackling the fight against malaria
Although preventable and treatable, malaria kills a child in Africa every 60 seconds and costs the continent an estimated minimum of $12 billion in lost productivity and healthcare costs each year