Kenya plans to progressively increase domestic funding for combating malaria in order to eradicate malaria by 2030, Erjesa Waqo, Head of the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), said on Monday.
Waqo said this at a Malaria Forum hosted by Novartis Social Business in Nairobi.
Waqo said that currently government financing constitutes about 25 per cent of all malaria eradication efforts with the rest being funded by bilateral and multilateral donors.
“In order to ensure Kenya meets the World Health Organisation target on reducing malaria deaths and infections by 2030 by 90 per cent as compared to 2015 figures, the country will devote more locally sourced funds on fighting the disease,” Waqo said.
Waqo said total malaria funding in Kenya averages 270 million dollars for a three-year period and with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and…
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