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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

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

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

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