Challenges in the Management of Malaria in Nigeria: A Healthcare System Preview
Received Date: May 11, 2016 / Accepted Date: Jun 17, 2016 / Published Date: Jun 24, 2016
Abstract
Malaria continues to be one of the most important topics in public health as a disease which put 3.2 billion people around the world at risk of infection. Malaria is considered one of the major preventable diseases that cause death. It is a huge challenge to bring malaria from control to elimination phase, especially in a country with an impeded economy such as Nigeria. One of the main bottlenecks is the healthcare system as a whole and allocated expenditure. The political will and the international support from different stakeholders have given rise to the new National Strategic Malaria Plan [NMSP 2014-2020] aiming toward, Nigeria free of malaria by 2020.
Keywords: Malaria, Nigeria, Healthcare system, Africa
Citation: Farid BA (2016) Challenges in the Management of Malaria in Nigeria: A Healthcare System Preview. Epidemiology (Sunnyvale) 6:253. Doi: 10.4172/2161-1165.1000253
Copyright: © 2016 Farid BA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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