Nigeria: Achieving Zero Malaria By 2030 - What Nigeria Must Do to Advance Towards Elimination

[Nigeria Health Watch] Malaria is one of the leading causes of death in children under five years of age globally. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a child dies from malaria every two minutes. Eighty percent of the global malaria burden is carried by 15 countries, 14 of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is caused by the Plasmodium species and transmitted by infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. WHO describes malaria elimination as the interruption of local transmission of a specified malaria parasite spec
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news