The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, says Nigeria has not been able to eliminate malaria 70 years since it began implementing programmes to eliminate the disease, due to “insufficient focus and commitment.”
The minister said although the Roll Back Malaria Initiative achieved remarkable progress such as increased funding for malaria control efforts in Africa, both from domestic sources and international donors, gaps still exist.
“Nigeria, African countries and the global malaria community must also reinvent approaches to address the constraints that prevent efficient delivery of existing effective key malaria control strategies and forthcoming innovations and tools. Tools for the control of the disease have evolved both in quantity and quality over the years.”
Some of these strategies, according to him, include the introduction of artemisinin-based combination treatments as treatment, the Affordable Medicine Facility for Malaria to make antimalarial medicines available and affordable, and training of community-oriented resource persons on recognizing and treating malaria.
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