Malaria
19 Jan 2017
In a bid to eradicate malaria in the country, MIRAL Pharm limited, a leading indigenous pharmaceutical company has announced the commencement of the Call for Essays for students in tertiary institutions starting with Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State.
18 Dec 2016
It is not too often that filmmakers take films back to where they were shot and shown to the local community, who usually queue up in cinemas to see such films ...
13 Dec 2016
Global progress on controlling malaria risks stalling due to an "urgent need" for more funding, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in its annual report on Tuesday.
13 Dec 2016
Global progress on controlling malaria risks stalling due to an "urgent need" for more funding, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in its annual report Tuesday.
14 Nov 2016
Nigeria has recorded a 35 per cent decline in malaria cases in five years with only 25 per cent of children under the age of five testing positive for the disease in 2015 compared to 40 per cent in 2010.
10 Nov 2016
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, who spoke at the launch of the report, said malaria remained a major public health challenge, though the last 10 to 15 years of elimination initiatives in...
20 Oct 2016
I had to go back to my herbal concoction,” he added. “My wife helped me this time. I asked her to buy enough quantity of garlic and ginger, which are the main constituents of the concoction.
10 Oct 2016
A new global study has found that malaria was the leading killer disease in Nigeria, resulting in 192,284 deaths in 2015 while the second and third top causes of death in Nigeria ...
10 Oct 2016
The National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) and the Society for Family Health (SFH) have raised the alarm concerning the threat malaria poses to Nigeria, citing a loss of $3 billion yearly.
7 Oct 2016
The National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) has adopted a strategic plan to ensure total elimination of malaria in Nigeria by 2020.
5 Oct 2016
Telecommunications Company, Etisalat and the Cross River State Government in partnership with Mediatrix Development Foundation have pledged to forge a close working relationship in the fight against the scourge of malaria in the State.
23 Sep 2016
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infection where a bite passes a parasite into the bloodstream. Eliminated from the United States in the 1950s, the disease still kills hundreds of thousands each year, mostly children in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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