The World Health Organization (WHO) says up to 10,000 lives in Nigeria can be saved by November through targeted steps in malaria prevention and control, if more funds are secured.
Dr. Pedro Alonso, Director of WHO’s Global Malaria Programme, said to manage malaria in Borno, WHO and its partners were strengthening surveillance systems to monitor cases and outbreaks.
Alonso said they were also increasing people’s access to care in clinics and to health facilities, and spraying insecticides and distributing bed nets as part of vector control.
According to him, WHO and partners are also administering malaria drugs to children under five every month from July to October.
Following more than eight years of conflict in Borno, some 3.7 million people need humanitarian assistance, and all are at risk for malaria, WHO said.
The UN health agency estimates that through October,…
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