• Says malaria deaths in Nigeria decreased from 194,000 in 2021 to 188,480 in 2022
• Nation missing as Benin, Liberia, Sierra Leone roll out mass vaccination
The United States government has pledged to foster robust and effective malaria services with Nigeria.
It stated that its President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) has helped save over 10.6 million lives and prevented 1.7 billion malaria infections globally since 2000.
Noting that malaria deaths in Nigeria has decreased from 194,000 in 2021 to 188,480 in 2022, the U.S. government said that prevention of malaria in the country has contributed to the overall global success of the PMI programme.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed Nigeria among the five countries that contributed to the global increase of malaria cases in 2022.
This was even as the country was said to be missing as three West African Countries – Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone –…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
