Nigeria: States Urged to Embrace SMC for Malaria Elimination

12 November 2015

State governments in the Sahel region and non-governmental organizations have been advised to invest in Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) to reduce the burden of malaria in those areas.

National Coordinator of the National Malaria Elimination Programme of the federal ministry of health, Dr Nnenna Ezeigwe made the call yesterday in Abuja during the end of project dissemination of the SMC project in Katsina State implemented by Malaria Consortium and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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