Blantyre, Malawi — Malawi’s government Tuesday announced a goal to eliminate malaria, a leading cause of death in the country, by 2030. The mosquito-spread parasitic disease accounts for about 15% of Malawi’s hospital admissions. Speaking during a televised launch of a nationwide anti-malaria initiative known as ‘Zero Malaria Starts with Me’ campaign, President Lazarus Chakwera […]
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The government said Lagos-Ibadan, Abuja-Keffi-Lafia and Abuja-Kano highways have the highest number of accident casualties. The Nigerian government has expressed worry over the increasing number of motor accidents on the nation’s highways. Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, stated this while briefing journalists after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday. He […]
The World Health Assembly, the main governing body of the World Health Organization, has adopted a new resolution that aims to revitalize and accelerate efforts to end malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that continues to claim more than 400 000 lives annually. Led by the United States of America and Zambia – and co-sponsored […]
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Africa: Hope For A Malaria-Free Africa
In recent decades, the world has made remarkable progress in the fight against malaria. Over 20 years of investment, commitment, and action have saved over 7.6 million lives and prevented over 1.5 billion malaria cases. We’ve discovered new ways of protecting ourselves from the deadly mosquito bite – with insecticide-treated mosquito nets, effective antimalarial treatments, […]
Clara Mbalale still vividly remembers the day in 2019 she felt unwell while at school. “I was in Mathematics class, then all of a sudden my body was very hot, I was sweating and I had a headache. I felt weak,” says the 14-year-old. “I informed my teacher and he took me to a classroom […]
Editor’s Note “A continent of 1.2 billion people should not have to import 99% of its vaccines. But that is the tragic reality for Africa. Fixing the lack of home-grown manufacturing capacity has become a top priority for Africa’s policymakers. Last week, 40,000 people, including researchers, business leaders and members of civil-society groups, joined heads […]
Over 100 million Nigerians are at risk of malaria, while about 300,000 deaths still occur in the country every year due to the disease. As the country recently joined the rest of the globe to mark this year’s World Malaria Day, Martins Ifijeh looks at efforts made by organisations like Reckitt Benckiser to change the […]
Malaria is one of the leading causes of death in children under five years of age globally. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a child dies from malaria every two minutes. Eighty percent of the global malaria burden is carried by 15 countries, 14 of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is caused by […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has partnered with the Nigeria’s National Malaria Elimination Programme to launch a new $90million malaria control effort in eight vulnerable states in Nigeria. The $90 million President’s Malaria Initiative for States (PMI-S) will serve as the flagship activity for the global US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) in […]
Recently, Dr. Ngozi Erondu and colleagues wrote an open letter in the journal Nature Medicine, which called out international funders of science and development in Africa and has pledged better ways of funding for malaria programs and initiatives. They referenced a recent announcement of a US$30 million grant awarded to the nonprofit health organization PATH […]
In the face of the current Covid-19 pandemic, the world is still grappling with malaria elimination. According to the latest World malaria report, released on 30 November 2020, there were 229 million cases of malaria in 2019 compared to 228 million cases in 2018. The estimated number of malaria deaths stood at 409, 000 in […]
Meanwhile, Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has disclosed that the federal government would spend N1.89 trillion to wipe out malaria in Nigeria. In a text, he presented to mark 2021 World Malaria Day, which was obtained by journalists yesterday in Abuja, the minister added that N352 billion was needed for the year 2021 programme […]
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have been used for more than two decades to deliver medical supplies and food aid to disaster-hit areas – and new uses for these devices are constantly being found. In countries such as Rwanda and Ghana, logistics companies like Zipline have developed and currently operate drones that […]
Malaria kills more than 650,000 people each year; the majority of those deaths occurring on the African continent. In 2019, 229 million people were infected. That’s about 3 percent of all humans on Earth, every year. Worse off, 409,000 people died of malaria. Over the past two decades, great progress has been made in the […]
She was happily cuddling her three months old son when we visited her house in Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay County. This is the first time Ms Jane Atieno is carrying a bundle of joy to term after three miscarriages that almost cost her marriage and respect from friends and even in-laws. When Ms Atieno was […]
With about 81,640 deaths annually from malaria, Nigeria accounts for over 20 per cent of the 400,000 annual deaths, globally, from the disease. About eight years after a PREMIUM TIMES investigation uncovered how public officials collude with traders to sell free donor-funded mosquito nets to Nigerians, the practice is still rampant as Nigeria continues its […]
“Malaria-related absenteeism and productivity losses cost Nigeria, for example, an estimated US$ 1.1 billion every year. “ The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said malaria is responsible for an annual reduction of 1.3 per cent in Africa’s economic growth. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti disclosed this in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES […]
Nigeria bears the main brunt of the deleterious effect of Malaria on the African continent year on year, as you read this piece ten children would have been infected with this disease. One out three Nigerian children that are infected with Malaria will die within two days of developing the symptoms. In Nigeria, Malaria kills […]