Abuja, 27 April, 2022 – To commemorate the 2022 World Malaria Day (WMD), World Health Organization (WHO) and stakeholders contain counseled a collective, progressive and transformative intention in opposition to tackling the malaria scourge in the Nigeria.
This name came on the Ministerial Press conference organized by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) in collaboration with WHO and malaria management partners to label WMD in Abuja on 26 April 2022.
Each and each three hundred and sixty five days on 25 April, the World celebrates WMD.
Speaking at this three hundred and sixty five days’s occasion, Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, stated that the theme for 2022 WMD – Approach Equity, Originate Resilience, Quit Malaria with the national slogan “Each and each effort counts”, reinforces the need for elevated funding in malaria prevention and therapy providers and products in opposition to achieving a malaria-free nation.
He commended the gratifying effort of partners who contain been participating with the authorities in adopting varied progressive tools toward achieving a malaria-free Nigeria.
“For a malaria-free Nigeria, let every of us play our parts, because of this of every effort counts,” he stated.
Over the years, the authorities of Nigeria and its partners contain persisted to plan and commence original and progressive programs for prevention, prognosis and therapy to assemble obvious that a if reality be told intensive reduction in the preference of cases and deaths recorded every three hundred and sixty five days attributable to lengthy-standing illness in the nation.
As a strategic partner of the FMoH, WHO provides technical beef up to the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) to title, assess, assemble, put into effect and tune malaria in Nigeria.
In his goodwill message to the WHO Nation Representatives, Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo stated the theme aligns with WHO’s name to urgently scale up innovation and the deployment of most up-to-date tools in the war against malaria, while advocating for equitable entry to malaria prevention and therapy, within the context of constructing successfully being machine resilience.
He acknowledged that recently, there has been a rising political dedication at nation, regional and global ranges to kind out malaria which has seen valuable breakthroughs in malaria prevention and management, without reference to the COVID-19 pandemic.
I take into consideration that collaboratively, we are able to “Approach Equity, Originate Resilience, Quit Malaria” and permit us to undergo in mind, “Each and each effort counts, he stated.
Per Dr Mulombo, “WHO stays committed to persisted partnership with FMoH/NMEP and all heaps of Roll Serve Malaria (RBM) partners by the provision of technical beef up and steering to put into effect the activities necessary to meet the National dreams.”
Of their separate goodwill messages, partners which incorporated, the Dangote Foundation (representing the Deepest Sector), USAID/PMI, and Catholic Relief Services – CRS (representing enforcing partners), unanimously known as for a collective progressive and transformative intention to the eradication of malaria. They additionally canvassed for further funding and funding to continue supporting response to assemble obvious that that the malaria campaigns are applied on time.
Highlights of the occasion was a commemoration stroll in Abuja and varied states at some level of the nation, free malaria attempting out, and an exhibition of progressive tools and drug extinct in combating the illness.
The World Malaria Document of 2021 estimated that 228 million malaria cases and over 600,000 malaria deaths occurred in 2020 within the WHO African Region, and this accounted for 95% of cases and deaths globally.
Technical Contacts:
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