Kaduna State Governor Nasiru el-Rufai of Kaduna State has officially launched the distribution of N5.5 million free insecticide treated nets to residents to fight malaria. The distribution, which took place from yesterday, July 7 will end on July 18 in…
President Muhammadu Buhari said 23 million Nigerian children have received the seasonal malaria chemoprevention, aiding reduction in severe malaria in children in the country. He made the declaration on Friday in Kigali at the Summit on Malaria and Neglected Tropical…
The Nasarawa State Government says it administered malaria preventive drugs to 775, 905 children under five years across the state in 2021. The Commissioner for Health, Mr Ahmed Yahaya, made the disclosure at a media parley to commence the second round…
Wubunna Ishaku Gofwen, the Taraba State programme officer of the Civil Society for Malaria, Control, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN), has called on the media to help in contributing to Nigeria’s goal of eliminating malaria. Making the appeal on Thursday during…
By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure The Ondo State Government, on Tuesday disclosed that no fewer than 3.3 million insecticide treated mosquitoes nets would be distributed to the residents across the 18 Local Government Areas of the state. According to the government,…
New ways of using existing edicines to prevent malaria has been shown to reduce severe cases of the parasitic disease among infants by more than 70 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a study. The “dramatic” results, published in…
…says govt’ll continue to deliver affordable, qualitative healthcare for residents …‘we’ll restore Oyo as Mecca of Healthcare services’ Oyo State Governor ‘Seyi Makinde, on Monday, kick-started the distribution of five Million insecticide-treated nets to people across the 33 local governments…
Centre for Malaria Research, Diagnosis, Training and Policy, University of Lagos, on Sunday, said it had established a Malaria centre for research capacity building and policy. Director of the centre, Prof. Wellington Oyibo, gave the hint in an interview with…
The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited says it is targeting to make its host community, Bonny Island in Rivers State, free of Malaria by 2030 towards its vision of developing the island into a megacity. A statement posted on…
The Health Minister, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has promised that malaria will be reduced to less than 10% in the country in the next 5 years. The Minister gave the assurance while receiving the Board of Trustees and Council of the Institute…
