World Malaria Day: Foundation Urges Partners To Align With Theme on ‘End Scourge’

As the world marks the 2023 World Malaria Day, the Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation has called on all roll back malaria partners and stakeholders to align with the year’s theme; ‘Time to deliver zero malaria: invest, innovate, implement,’ and to gravitate towards getting rid of mosquitoes breeding spaces by embarking on sanitation, waste management and fumigation/aerial spray of the entire country.
This is as the chairman of the foundation, Senator Ned Nwoko reassured Nigerians and Africans of his commitment towards ensuring that malaria becomes a thing of the past in Nigeria and Africa.
The foundation made the call through a press release signed by Chuks Anyaduba, Project Coordinator, Prince Ned Nwoko African Malaria Eradication Project and made available to our Correspondent in Port Harcourt.
The World Malaria Day is commemorated every year on 25 April as the 2023 edition recognizes the global efforts of Roll Back Malaria partners across the world to put an end to malaria.
The foundation noted that malaria continues to be the most killer disease with the most recent world malaria report stating that global tally of the scourge has reached 429,000 malaria deaths in a year. Subsaharan Africa, it stated has the most burden of malaria cases globally.
Anyaduba said; “In 2019, Prince Ned Nwoko foundation launched the Malaria Eradication Campaign for Africa with focus on sanitation, waste management, fumigation/spray as well as vaccine development. To get the attention of the world for this dreaded disease, the Chairman of the Foundation Prince Ned Nwoko made an audacious trip to the extremely cold Antarctica and became the first black African to visit the south pole in Antarctica”.
“Every year, the Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation joins the rest of the world to commemorate the World malaria day reminding all and sundry of the need to join hands together to end malaria in Africa. Since the beginning of the Malaria Eradication Campaign for Africa”, it stated, adding that the foundation has engaged in various programmes and interventions across Africa to drive the advocacy and awareness for the Malaria Eradication Project.
Some of these programmes/interventions include; high level meeting and presentation of the Malaria Project to the United Nations, WHO and UNESCO by the Chairman Senator Prince Ned Nwoko. Attaining official collaborative status between Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation and World Health Organisation.
International advocacy meetings with African leaders such as Presidents of Nigeria, Burkinafaso, Ghana, São Tomé & Principae and diplomatic missions to Nigeria.
Strategic meetings with all relevant stakeholders in Nigeria which include; Ministers of Health, Environment, Education, Science & Tech, Labour & Employment, National Orientation Agency, Deputy Senate President, Senate committees on Health & Environment, House of Reps Committees on Environment and Health and Nigerian Governors Forum.
Others are sponsorship of Mosquito Entomological Research in Idumuje Ugboko, Delta State featuring research teams from Molecular Entomology and vector control unit, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research and Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, Delta State University, Abraka, amongst Other programmes.