{"id":369664,"date":"2025-02-02T16:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T16:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/2025\/02\/02\/one-in-five-malaria-deaths-globally-occurs-in-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T16:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T16:08:29","slug":"one-in-five-malaria-deaths-globally-occurs-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/2025\/02\/02\/one-in-five-malaria-deaths-globally-occurs-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One In Five Malaria Deaths Globally Occurs In Nigeria\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>One out of five deaths from malaria globally occurs in Nigeria, the Media and communications specialist of the Global Fund project of the Society for Family Health (SFH), Daniel Gbue, has disclosed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Quoting different world statistics on malaria prevalence in Nigeria, Gbue also said the disease kills nine persons every hour in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>He spoke in Abeokuta, Ogun State, at a one-day media orientation for practising journalists across the state on the ITN universal coverage campaign.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Gbue said: \u201cIt (malaria) is the commonest cause of absenteeism from schools, offices,\u00a0 farms, markets, etc resulting to lower productivity.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIn addition to the overburden on health system it also exerts a huge social and economic burden on our communities and country, retarding the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 40% annually and billions of Naira is lost to malaria annually in form of treatment cost, prevention and loss of man hours.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>He called on media practitioners to propagate anti-malaria campaign by promoting use of treated nets in order to help reduce the disease across the country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Project Director of the SFH, John Ocholi, said the body\u00a0will be distributing\u00a03.1million long lasting insecticide treated nets to residents of\u00a0 Ogun State, as part of the efforts to combat malaria in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said the programme\u00a0is being carried out in\u00a0collaboration with the state government, the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and other partners.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ocholi explained that the distribution is aimed at reducing malaria prevalence in the country by encouraging regular use of treated nets in all households.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Project Director insisted\u00a0that a \u201cmalaria free Nigeria\u201d is attainable, saying the country is on track.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He, however, expressed concern over low utilisation of treated nets by the households especially in Ogun State.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cOgun State has one of the least percentage of net utilization in the world , it\u2019s somewhere around 30% and net ownership is about 60-70%.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>READ MORE: Nigeria Receives First 846,000 Malaria Vaccine Doses, Begins Roll Out In Kebbi, Bayelsa In November<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\u201cSo,\u00a0we also want to encourage people to use the net. We are begging people once you get this net, air it for 24hrs after that, put it over the sleeping space and sleep inside it every night.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIf we save money from buying drugs we can use it in other things like education, transportation, feeding and others. And that\u2019s why we say health is wealth, it helps you to do other things,\u201d Ocholi said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ocholi disclosed that the team will be working with 14,000 personnel to distribute the nets from 1,400 distribution points across the state between October 31 and November\u00a06.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>The Malaria Program Manager for Ogun State, Mrs Olamide Adeyinka, disclosed has embarked on an interpersonal sensitization to improve on net\u00a0utilisation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u201cWe are having alot of community mobilization. We have CSOs ( Civil society Organisations ) who are working in the community to make people see reasons why they need to use the net correctly.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIn 10 local governments, we are doing what we call inter personal communication, where people move from house to house talking to them one on one so as to ascertain the reasons for not using it and advise them on the advantage of using it,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post \u2018One In Five Malaria Deaths Globally Occurs In Nigeria\u2019 appeared first on Information Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One out of five deaths from malaria globally occurs in Nigeria, the Media and communications specialist of the Global Fund project of the Society for Family Health (SFH), Daniel Gbue, has disclosed. 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