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Disease with a cure  - FT editorial
This FT editorial makes some important points. But is misses one crucial one - that WHO and its partners are failing to control malaria - largely because they ignore IRS with DDT. If there were fewer cases to treat, poor governments would be in a better position to roll out the new expensive therapies.
U.N. 60th anniversary concert aims to fight malaria  - Stephanie Nebehay
Millions of Dollars are once again raised to fund largely ineffective malaria control efforts - when will donor agencies realise that the best form of malaria control is a well-managed IRS programme using DDT?
KMC tastes success in malaria control  - Safi Shamsi
The Kolkata Municipality claims that better vigilance and vector control has led to a reduction in the number of malaria cases - imagine how effective the programme would be if they also incorporated a well managed IRS programme.
Intermittent prophylaxis prevents malaria in infants  - Medical News Today
Intermittent preventive treatment for infants has the potential to reduce the burden of malaria.
Why are the best malaria drugs not being used in Africa?  - Medical News Today
Artemisinin based combination therapies (ACT’s) are the most effective form of malaria drug available, yet in many developing countries the drugs are simply not reaching the targeted population due to government bureaucracy.
Commercial motive hinted at in restrictions on DDT  - Alan Beattie
The FT runs a piece based on AFM's recent media advisory which uncovers the fact that Bayer Crop Sciences supports EU protectionism which is stopping countries from using DDT in malaria control.
'Insecticide Treated Nets, Best Protection Against Malaria'

Daily Champion (Lagos)
NEWS
January 13, 2024
Posted to the web January 13, 2024

By Florence Udoh
Lagos

INSECTICIDE Treated Nets (ITNs) have been identified as the best tool to reduce the susceptibility of Nigerians to malaria.

Speaking during the launch of the USAID/Netmark and Exxon Mobil Insecticide Treated Nets (ITN) discount voucher programme for pregnant women in Lagos State recently, USAID Nigeria Mission Director, Ms Dawn Liberia, stated that malaria is a disease that has had a devastating impact on the social and economic development of Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries.

"Fortunately, there are tools to reduce our susceptibility to malaria ITNs are critical tools in the prevention of malaria. Sleeping under an ITN significantly decreases the risk of malaria transmission by about 40 per cent and can reduce mortality from malaria by about 60 per cent" Liberi said.

Exxon Mobil has offered the sum of $120,000 to be used in discounting the ITNs for pregnant women and nursing mothers in Lagos State.

She stressed that the use of ITNs is particularly important in pregnant women and in children under five years of age who are most at risk due to lower immunity system.

She noted that USAID has between 1999 and 2004 collaborated with the Nigerian government and their implementing partners such as Netmark, to the tune of over $220 million in health care activities in the country, and $10 million out of the said sum was invested in malaria activities specifically.

Earlier in a welcome address, USAID/Network country Director, Dr. Ifeanyi Ibe, stated that his organisation would seek to increase net production from 800,000 to 5 million ITNs by 2007, expand distribution and sales nationwide and increase the availability of affordable ITNs.

Ibe said Netmark's basic approach reflects the three strategies of the Roll-back Malaria Strategic framework for Scaling-up ITNs usage in the world. These include, establishing commercial markets for ITNs using time-limited subsidised interventions to expand commercial markets, and offering long-term targeted subsidies to reach the most vulnerable populations.

The $120,000 facility provided by Exxon Mobil working in collaboration with USAID/Netmark and the Lagos State Ministry of Health is meant to provide a subsidy of N300 on each set of the ITNs to registered pregnant women and nursing mothers and their children at designated primary health centres spread throughout the state.

The officials explained that to benefit, the would-be-beneficiary must have been registered at a primary health centre nearest to her area of abode.

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