Malaria

Kano State Government has strengthened the oversight and coordination of the 2026 Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) program following a comprehensive review of its processes, documentation and personnel arrangements. The development …

Chairman of Nigeria’s National Malaria Elimination Council (NMEC) and United Nations Malaria Ambassador, Aliko Dangote has called on governments and the private sector to urgently scale up coordinated action to …

The Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN) has held a quarterly media dissemination meeting in Kano to showcase progress recorded under the COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM) project. …

The Federal Government has announced plans to roll out a new malaria prevention strategy for children under five in southern Nigeria, following positive results from pilot studies. Dr. Nnena Ogbluafor, …

The Adamawa State Government has flagged off the 2025 Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) campaign aimed at reaching over 1.2 million children under the age of five across its 21 local …

State programme manager of Malaria Consortium, Okwulu Andrew, has disclosed that 40,678 confirmed Malaria cases in children under five years were recorded in Kogi State in 2024.. Okwulu, who disclosed …

The Senate has passed a bill for second reading to establish the National Agency for Malaria Eradication (NAME), a landmark initiative to tackle Nigeria’s overwhelming malaria burden. Senator Ned Nwoko …

Civil Society on Malaria Control, Immunisation and Nutrition (ACOMIN) in Niger State has conducted free malaria tests and treatments for residents of Bosso community, a suburb of Minna, the state …

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed that a mysterious illness that killed more than 50 people earlier this year was malaria. The National Public Health Institute …

Lema Tefera’s voice broke as he described losing four children to malaria in just one month — deaths that could likely have been prevented if not for the conflict in …