Lagos State will begin clinical trial treatment of COVID-19 using chloroquine as approved by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control [NAFDAC] this...
Kano State Government has said the recent deaths in the state were caused by “complications arising from hypertension, diabetes, meningitis and acute malaria”. The state Commissioner...
A Malaria Expert, Prof. Olugbenga Mokuolu, says efforts toward reducing malaria globally, can be reversed, as attention is totally shifted to war against the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. Mokuolu, who...
A Nigerian man has reportedly been rushed to the hospital unconscious after he reportedly took an overdose of malaria drug Chloroquine over Coronavirus scare. This story...
Nigerian authorities have been in touch with around 100 people who may have been exposed to an Italian man who is the country’s first coronavirus patient,...
The National Coordinator, National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), Dr Audu Mohammed, on Tuesday said Nigeria would get three-year grant of $417m from the Global Fund to...
Researchers have used a drone to drown mosquito larvae on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, as part of a pilot project seeking to prevent the spread...
Malaria experts have warned that the world will not be able to bring the disease under control using currently available tools. The World Health Organization (WHO)...
A Nigerian journalist has expressed his dissatisfaction with the activities of some medical practitioners in Nigeria, especially private practitioners, following his recent misdiagnosis experience at a...
A little boy, simply identified as Favour, narrowly escaped death in Abuja after he was giving a fake anti-malaria drug by a pharmacist. According to reports,...
Nearly 90 per cent of all malaria cases in the world occur in sub-Saharan Africa, former Namibian Minister of Health and Social Services, Richard Kamwi, said....
Minister of State for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has called on organized private sector to join the fight in combating malaria in Nigeria stating that the...
A new campaign film featuring Nigerian Afro-beats star Yemi Alade, other celebrities, a mozzie and a call to beat the world’s oldest and deadliest disease, “malaria”...
Annually, April 25 is commemorated as World Malaria Day. Here are a few things worth remembering on this day.