WHO, Yobe target one million kids for malaria treatment

By : Njadvara Musa, Damaturu

Date: 4 November 2021 3:43am WAT

A child gets a malaria vaccination at Yala Sub-County hospital, in Yala October 7, 2021. - World Health Organization (WHO) approved using the malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, on children between 5-month to 5-year old in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts with moderate to high malaria transmission after the malaria vaccine implementation programme (MVIP) in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi since 2019. (Photo by Brian Ongoro / AFP)

[FILES] A mother protecting her child from mosquitoes with the net.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and Yobe State Primary Healthcare Management Board (YPHMB) are targeting one million children for anti-malarial therapy.

The kids, between three and 59 months old from 17 local councils, are to be administered seasonal malaria chemoprevention drugs.
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While flagging off the therapy yesterday in Damaturu, the Director for Immunisation and Disease Control, YPHMB, Dr. Umar Chiroma, disclosed that the anti-malarial therapy was approved and supported by WHO to save lives.

According to him, exercise can prevent children from contracting malaria.
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