12/09/2023
By Otobong Gabriel, Abuja The World Health Organization, WHO has said that the African Region carries a high proportion of the global malaria burden, accounting for about 95% of all malaria cases and 96% of all malaria deaths in 2021 while Nigeria accounts for around 27% of the global burden of malaria cases. WHO representative for Nigeria, Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo, said the major drivers of this continuing disease burden include the size of Nigeria’s population, making scaling up intervention challenging; suboptimal surveillance systems, which pick up less than 40% of the country’s malaria data; inadequate funding to ensure universal interventions across all states; and health seeking behaviour, where people use the private sector, with limited regulation, preferentially....
By Otobong Gabriel, Abuja The World Health Organization, WHO has said that the African Region carries a high proportion of the global malaria burden, accounting for about 95% of all malaria cases and 96% of all malaria deaths in 2021 while Nigeria accounts for around 27% of the global burden of mala...
