Dangote in his World Malaria Day statement titled “With Urgent Investment, Innovation and Implementation, Zero Malaria Spread is Possible” urged that all stakeholders must work together to decimate malaria, which he said had brought untold human suffering with the economic toll of the disease on global productivity.
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The expert spoke when he fielded questions during a world press briefing in commemoration of this year’s World malaria Day.
A leading FMCG company Orange Group has reinforced its commitment to providing innovative products to combat Malaria in Nigeria.
The stakeholders made the call Monday in Abuja at a Malaria Basketball Exhibition game and clinic.
The initiative is to be launched on World Malaria Day on April 25.
The World Health Organization has called on the Nigerian Government not to forget about other diseases amid the Novel Coronavirus pandemic outbreak in the country.
Health Education and Empowerment Initiative’s week-long activity started on April 23 and ended on April 27, with Sona Agro Allied Company sponsoring the event.
UNICEF in a message to mark the World Malaria Day in New York, said Rwanda and Nigeria saw an increase of over 1.5 million cases of malaria in 2016
Awolola, who is also an entomologist, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, on Wednesday.
Folasade Ofurune, a public health practitioner and Executive Director of Health Education and Empowerment Initiative, told newsmen that health awareness and enlightenment campaign are crucial in the prevention, control and management of malaria and other communicable diseases, especially at the grassroots
IE’s Head Corporate Communications of Ikeja Electric, Felix Ofulue, explained that as a socially responsible corporate citizen, the Day provided an opportunity for the company to provide support in fighting malaria and contributing its quota to ensuring a relatively healthier society
The expert, who disclosed that there was a new deadlier type of mosquito called penocide, called for adequate sensitisation in fighting the scourge
Speaking while commemorating World Malaria Day with “End Malaria for good” as its theme, the company’s General Manager External Relations, Dr. Kudo Eresia-Eke, said there was grave indifference by Nigerian scientists to find a solution to a scourge peculiar to the tropics and the country
The Commissioner For Health, Dr. Kuden Kamshak, broke this news on Tuesday while addressing journalists on the 10th anniversary commemoration of the World Malaria Day in Jos
An Africa without polio is within reach. So is the vision of getting life-saving vaccines to every child
Iwalokun, the Head of Immunology and Vaccinology Research Group, Nigeria Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos State, made this plea on Monday in an interview with the News Agency Nigeria in Lagos