Kano State government in collaboration with Development partners have provided 3, 545, 871 doses of Malaria prevention drugs between July and October last year.
The state commissioner for health, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf made the disclosure at a press briefing in commemoration of the 2025 world Malaria day on Saturday.
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World Malaria Day is a day set aside by the World Health Assembly to reflect on the effort towards malaria elimination and further raise public awareness about the disease as one of the major public health challenges worldwide.
The commissioner pointed out that the celebration of the day was aimed at creating awareness on malaria elimination efforts across the world as well as the gains made since the year 2000, as the world is on track to meet the goals and target of reversing malaria incidences to zero.
“Globally, from the year 2000 to 2023 a total of 2.2 billion malaria cases were recorded and prevented 12.7 million deaths due to malaria which is a historic and significant milestone in the fight against the disease, most of which were in the African Region.
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“It’s worthy to note that a child loses life every two minutes due to malaria worldwide. Also, the report showed that estimated malaria cases in 85 malaria endemic countries were put at 263 million, an increase of l1 million cases compared to the year 2022, most of which were in the African Region (89.7%), and Nigeria contributing 25.9% of these cases,” the commissioner said.
According to him, the Theme for this year is: “Malaria Ends with Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite,” thus emphasizing the need for continued investment, innovation, collaboration, and commitment to accelerate progress towards malaria elimination while The Slogan is “Stay Committed”.
To address these challenges, Kano State Government, under the leadership of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, placed high priority on saving the lives of women and children through health care system strengthening at all levels of care in the state through procurement and distribution of anti-malarial commodities worth billions of naira yearly in across the 1,565 health facilities through the Last mile delivery to the patients free with the support of partners.
The commissioner added that distribution of thousands of LLIN bimonthly to pregnant women attending ANC first visits and fully immunized children.
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Allocation of 10 percent from Kano Health Trust Fund for malaria elimination are in line with Kano State government’s effort in preventing malaria especially among the children under five and pregnant women in the state.
He called on the people to seize the golden opportunity of the forthcoming integrated twin campaigns this year (i.e Nets distribution and seasonal Malaria prevention) where 7,755,564 Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) will be distributed alongside malaria prevention drugs to over 3,807,676 children below the age of 5 years over a 4-month period of the rainy season (July-October) in Kano state,” he added.
