This year’s World Malaria Day is marked with the theme,’ Time to deliver zero malaria: invest, innovate, implement’.
Malaria affects millions of people every day, and has been around for millennia, but has been hard to eliminate.
It is clear that to deliver zero malaria, we will need to employ combinations of strategies, look at the problem from many different angles and be innovative.
James Mba, a Malaria Focal Person at Effia Kwesimintsim Municipal Assembly, EKMA, Health Directorate underscored the need to continue education and sensitizing the public on the harm the disease has on humans.
He said access to resources would be needed on time to carry out malaria activities.
He gave some more insight into some activities surrounding the day.
“As we mark, World Malaria Day, when you go to all our health facilities the health personnel are there to talk about what malaria is, its effects, causes, and prevention.
Some of the interventions we give out are children under 5 years are given treated mosquito nets, and first-time pregnant women too are given free mosquito nets.
As a country, the program has moved from National Malaria Program to National Malaria Elimination Program because of the reduction in malaria death and diseases.
So as a country, we are on cause to fight the disease. The disease is a threat to human survival.,” Mr Mba stated.
Mr James Mba mentioned clarified that the new malaria vaccine will soon be used to scale up Child Welfare Clinics, CWC across the nation.
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