Malaria

Nigerian government says it is committed to eliminating malaria as it eliminated guinea worm in the country. President Mohammadu Buhari made the commitment in his presentation in Kigali in Rwanda at .a summit on Malaria and other…

The Nasarawa state government has inaugurated the round 2 seasonal chemo-prevention campaign on malaria to tackle the life-threatening disease across the 13 Local Government Areas of the state. The State Commissioner for Health, Pharm.…

Kaduna State Ministry of Health in collaboration with Society for Family Health (SFH) and Catholic Relief Service (CRS), say they will collectively distribute over five million insecticide treated nets to residents of the state to achieve…

More than one million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have now received at least one dose of the first malaria vaccine. Data provided by the UN's World Health Organisation suggests that the pilot programme launched in April 2019 was…

The chairman of the Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation, has urged the federal government to work towards setting up a malaria eradication agency. READ ALSO: GAVI to support Nigeria, others with $155.7m for Malaria vaccine The chairman who is…

The World Health Organisation(WHO) is set to immunise 958,000 children against malaria across 21 local government areas of Adamawa. READ ALSO: Gombe to commence door-to-door malaria treatment WHO’s National Consultant, Malaria in…

The Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation has said that a vaccine for malaria in Nigeria would be available in the next six months. Read Also: World Malaria Day: Associations partner to support low-income households in Nigeria This was…

The World Health Organisation (WHO)  have said malaria is killing more people more than COVID-19 in Africa. A public health officer with WHO, Dr. Jerry Pantuvo said this at a workshop in Yola organised for journalists in the North East…