The recent Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) prediction and warning on possible outbreak of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis (CSM) and Malaria due to adverse weather conditions from January to May this year...

House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Malaria, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis has summoned Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Mohammed Ali Pate, over alleged misappropriation of $300 million meant to tackle malaria since 2021.

The United State government said it committed over $600 million last year to save lives in Nigeria through its health assistance programmes.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved $9.2 billion as grants starting this year to support more than 70 countries

The Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN) has canvassed the adoption of preventive interventions to combat the high incidence of malaria in the country.

Climate change and its impacts, particularly extreme weather and heatwaves, pose a “substantial risk” to the progress being made to fight malaria, the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

Kwara Governor’s wife, Amb. Olufolake Abdulrazaq, has pledged to use her office to ensure that children in the state no longer die of malaria.

Sterling Oil Exploration & Energy Production Co. Ltd. (SEEPCO) has stated that elimination of malaria requires strengthening community responses through regular awareness campaigns and timely medical support as it has a significant impact on the health of infants, young children, and pregnant women. 

Coordinating Minister of Health, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, has restated the current administration’s commitment to crush malaria and its growing problem in Nigeria. He regretted that the country currently bears 30 per cent of the global burden, with Kano State as epic centre of the killer communicable disease. The minister spoke yesterday in Kano when he…

A Fulbright Scholar, and Associate Professor of Public Health, Uchechukwu M. Chukwuocha, has recommended that continuous exploratory research work be intensified on efficacy of ‘whole plant therapies’ as alternative treatment for malaria, other endemic infections and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), due to their potential rich therapeutic medicinal properties. Chukwuocha, who is also the acting Head, Department…

•U.S. govt issues health alert as malaria cases in over 20 years resurface in two states •New mosquito species found in Florida, Finland, three other countries for first time Nigeria and the rest of the world have been put on the alert as the United States (US) is seeing some locally acquired cases of malaria…

The Nasarawa State Government has flagged of the distribution of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine, popularly known as Fansidar or Amalar, Maldox and Amodiaquine drugs for prevention of malaria to 977, 950 children in the state.