malaria

The Ministers, gathering in Yaoundé, Cameroon, signed a declaration committing to provide stronger leadership and increased domestic funding for malaria control programmes; to ensure further investment in data technology; to apply the…

ABUJA - Nigeria may not meet up with its goal of totally eradicating malaria by the year 2020 unless needed funds are urgently injected to ensure free access to treatment and preventive measures, a deputy director of the National Malaria…

Trials to be conducted in Burkina Faso, Gabon, Mali and Niger BAMAKO, Mali – The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) has granted new funding of €10m over five years to support…

A recent study has revealed that that widely used malaria treatment to prevent malaria in pregnant women is now at risk of failing in areas where drug resistance is on the increase. In the most comprehensive study to date, Worldwide…

• as global incidence falls ABUJA - The Federal Government has expressed concerns over the rising cases of malaria between 2017 and 2018 in Nigeria. This comes at a time global incidence of the disease is reported to have decreased…

Pregnant women have been urged to cultivate the habit of reporting for antenatal care as soon as they miss their monthly period for proper checks for ailments such as malaria-related life-threatening disease. Malaria, Nigeria’s most…

Hope is rising on combating the malaria scourge in Nigeria as this year’s Nigeria Prize for Science competition has recorded the highest number of entries so far since the history of the Prize, with twenty seven scientists from around the…

Renowned malariologist, Prof. Oyibo,  blames the trend on poor diagnosis Malaria has been found to be over-diagnosed and over-treated in health facilities and pharmacy shops in developing countries, especially Nigeria and Ghana.…

The malaria Society of Nigeria (MSN) took the campaign against the disease to a rural  riverine community of Badagry, Lagos State, as part of its activities to commemorate the 2017 World Malaria Day. NHO Correspondent Juliet Umeh  who…

…says Foundation spends N250m on health, other interventions in Nigeria yearly Can you imagine the earth without the malaria scourge? Dr Mairo Mandara, Country representative, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Nigeria  believes…