malaria

The Federal Government has begun policy preparations for the nationwide rollout of Perennial Malaria Chemoprevention (PMC), a new intervention designed to protect infants from malaria. The move follows encouraging findings from an…

Participants in the "Science of Defeating Malaria", leadership development course and initiative from Harvard University, USA, have commended NASENI-TROMENT Biotechnologies factory as pivotal to eradicating malaria and infectious diseases…

The Director General, Nigeria Institute of Medical Research Prof. Babatunde Salako, on Monday, said the institute has discovered a new malaria vector called anopheles stephensi in northern Nigeria. Salako who spoke with newsmen in Lagos…

The Global Fund, an international financing and partnership to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria, says it has signed a record-breaking 8.54 billion US dollars grants for lifesaving programmes to combat the three diseases in 2020.…

OMOTAYO ARAOYE Ecobank Group has shown commitment to end malaria with its launch of first-of-its-kind Zero Malaria Business Leadership Initiative in partnership with Speak Up, a Dakar-based not-for-profit advocacy organization, and the…

On 31st December 2019, COVID 19 the novel coronavirus detected in Wuhan, China was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office in China. On 30th January 2020, it was declared a Public Health Emergency of International…

The Nigerian government has pledged to release $12 million to end epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other preventable and treatable disease across the globe. The government announced the commitment at the sixth…

Malaria has killed more than 1,800 people in Burundi this year, the UN’s humanitarian agency says, a death toll rivalling a deadly Ebola outbreak in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. In its latest situation report, the…

The world’s first malaria vaccine, RTS, S  pilot programme was launched in Malawi on Tuesday. This makes Malawi the first of three countries in Africa in which the RTS, S vaccine will be made available to children up to two years of age.…

Malawi is set to roll out the world’s first malaria vaccine in a landmark pilot programme for children on Tuesday in a bid to prevent the disease which kills hundreds of thousands across Africa each year. The RTS,S vaccine, which will be…