The Civil Society in Malaria Control Immunization and Nutrition ACOMIN has said that the World Health Organization WHO reports that four African countries accounted for over half of all malaria deaths globally.
The countries are Nigeria, Democratic republic of Congo, Uganda and Mozambique.
The chairman of ACOMIN in Kano Dr. Nura Haladu disclosed this at Global Fund/Catholic Relief Services-Grant Cycle 7 (GF/CRS-GC7) ACOMIN malaria grant start-up meeting, 2024 held in Kano on Friday.
He said the report which was released by WHO showed how Malaria becomes major public health concern in Nigeria, with an estimated 68 million cases and 194,000 deaths due to the disease in 2021.
“Nigeria has the highest burden of malaria globally, accounting for nearly 27% of the global malaria burden, Nigeria has the highest percentage of malaria cases with (26.8%), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (12.3%), Uganda (5.1%) and Mozambique (4.2%),” said the report.
According to Dr. Nura, with the recent figures, ACOMIN engaged the services of 26 Community Based Organizations (CBOs) in complementing the Kano state government efforts in Fighting Tuberculosis, HIV & AIDS and Malaria as the state been the most populous in the country.
Dr. Nura explained that the CBOs and CLMs were expected to work closely with traditional leaders, health officials from different facilities, and community members so that the health outcomes at different wards and local government areas will be improved.
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“ACOMIN and CBOs have been engaged by CRS to focus on holding stakeholders accountable and to carry out advocacy efforts to ensure that things go well, we must play our part and contribute to eliminating malaria in Nigeria,” he said.
“Our main aims is for the CBOs to learn the job, know how ACOMIN operates, Know the does and don’t in it, so that at the end of the day we will have a successful take off of the Grant,” Dr. Nura said.
“I urged the participants to work with each other peacefully, work as a team, learned the job well, entrant with health official at the community well so that our target of supporting government efforts will be reached,” said the chairman.
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In a remark, the executive director of Halliru Memorial Youth Development and Empowerment Initiatives (AYDI) represented by Shamsu Abba Ahmed expressed their commitment in working with all stakeholders in achieving their objectives.
According to him, ensuring public health is everyone’s responsibility, so all hands need to be join together to protect the health of Kano people.