MALARIA: Why Nigeria is far from winning despite global progress vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
nvestment, improve the environment and the quality of drugs, if it must go beyond recognising the day to celebrate the reduction of malaria burden in the country.
The number represents a 35 per cent decline since the previous MIS in 2010 when more than 40 per cent of children tested positive for the disease. Also, the 2017 World Malaria Report revealed that 182 million Nigerians were at risk of infection.
That year, Nigeria recorded a 35 per cent decline in malaria cases in five years with only 25 per cent of children under the age of five testings positive for the disease in 2015 compared to 40 per cent in 2010. However, despite some of the successes recorded, millions of Nigerians and communities are still ravaged by the disease. According to the WHO in 2018, sadly, these appreciable successes are being eroded.
While investigations show that treated nets remain the most effective and cheapest tool to prevent malaria, sadly, the 2015 Malaria Indicator Survey, MIS, show that only 69 per cent of households across the country own at least one ITN. The WHO recommends100 per cent universal ownership.
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