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Photo: PIXABAY State governments and healthcare professionals have said there is need for Nigeria to ensure that zero malaria target is achieved, just as they reeled out strategies deployed in combatting the disease in the various states across the country. They stated this during the St Racheal’s Pharma 2021 World Malaria Day Colloquium with the theme: Reaching the Zero Malaria Target. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, St. Racheal’s Pharma, Akinjide Adeosun, said in order to reach zero malaria target in Nigeria, there must be increased funding for anti-malaria initiatives, as ...

Views: Visits 10 By Chioma Obinna As the world battle with the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and other stakeholders in the campaign to eliminate malaria are calling for appropriate funding for malaria as it was done for COVID to avert what they described as ‘unacceptable’ deaths from the disease. According to them, the latest report from the World Health Organisation, WHO showed that an estimated 90,000 Nigerians died of malaria in 2020 and if nothing urgent is done, the deaths which reduced from 150 a decade ago will double. The experts also lamented the lack of capability...

*AHAPN alerts to rising resistance of malaria parasite to ACTs, mosquitoes to insecticides *Urges institutes to intensify research into discovery, production of new medicines Pharmacists under the aegis of the National Association of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists of Nigeria (AHAPN) have warned that rising resistance of mosquitoes to available insecticides and the malaria parasite to the drug of choice, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT), are threatening efforts to ensure that the country eliminates malaria by 2025. They said malaria-related absenteeism and production losse...

‘Innovative modes of treatment can help control spread of malaria’ Peshawar April 26, 2021 Rawalpindi : Malaria, one of the six priority communicable diseases of WHO, affects around 300,000 Pakistanis annually, killing about 50,000 of them hence, innovative modes of treatment are required to manage its spread, said Dr. Shumaila Naz Assistant Professor of the Department of Biological Sciences, of National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS) here. The world commemorated World Malaria Day on Sunday (April 25) to create awareness and WHO theme this year will be ’Zero Malaria: Draw the L...