The African Media and Malaria Research Network (AMMREN), has called on stakeholders in the fight against malaria to step up the game to save more lives.
This is because, “it is not acceptable that thousands of people, mainly children and pregnant women continue to die needlessly of malaria.”
A statement issued in Accra to mark this year’s World Malaria Day and signed by Mrs Charity Binka, Executive Secretary of the Network, said, the emergence of COVID-19 posed an additional challenge to the provision of essential health services worldwide and threatened to disrupt malaria prevention efforts, and asked the stakeholders to rise to the task.
AMMREN seeks partnership with Ghanaian Times to fight malaria
March 1, 2021
The African Media and Malaria Research Network (AMMREN) yesterday, paid a courtesy call on the Editor of the Ghanaian Times.
AMMREN is a network of African journalists and scientists working together to reduce the burden of malaria on the continent through various programmes, activities, and research solutions for policy decisions.
The visit was to extend the network’s appreciation to the editor, journalists, and the print media organisation for its support in the fight against malaria in the country.
The Executive Secretary, Dr Charity Binka, noted that the media was an important player in the country’s quest to move from its current control stage to the elimination of the disease in the country, being spearheaded by the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP).
Vicente Azumah, a survivor of malaria and resident of Ashaiman a suburb of Accra, says malaria is a cruel and deadly disease poise to threaten the survival of human beings on the African Continent and the world as a whole.
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Mosquito nets not for gardening Medical Entomologist LISTEN
FEB 21, 2021
Mr Sydney Ageyomah Abilba, the Upper East Regional Medical Entomologist of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) says Insecticides Treated Nets (ITNs) are not for gardening purposes, but intended to protect users against mosquito bites and malaria.
He explained that mosquito nets that were expired after about three years, torn and could not be sown for use, could be used for farming purposes. “But some farmers are also abusing it, they even use new nets.
“Some have realised that the insecticides used to treat the nets are able to ward off some insects in the garden, so they abuse it with the intention that insects that come to feed on their crops, especially the vegetables do not come around,” Mr Abilba noted.