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The project implemented in partnership with AIICO Insurance equips beneficiaries with education campaigns on preventive and control measures, strengthens the capacity of community health workers, provide free malaria tests and insecticide mosquito nets. According to World Health Organisation in a 2023 report, over 249 million people are still affected with malaria with Nigeria having about 27 per cent of the five million increased deaths globally from malaria.
“We aim to test over 1,000 people and provide over 1,000 households with free insecticide mosquito nets. The nets are a means to prevent malaria and we encourage them and their family to sleep under these insecticide-treated net, especially the pregnant women and children under five years because these are the demography that malaria affects the most,” he said.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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