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Nigeria accounts for 25% of malaria cases worldwide – WHO


The World Health Organisation has said that 25 per cent of Malaria cases recorded worldwide are from Nigeria.



The organisation, in its World Malaria Report 2018 published a few days ago, said that 15 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and India carried 80 per cent of the global malaria burden.



It also said that five countries accounted for half of all malaria cases worldwide. While Nigeria topped the list with 25 per cent of the cases, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique had 11 per cent and five per cent, respectively. India and Uganda had four per cent each.



The report said that most malaria cases in 2017 were in the Africa region with 200 million or 92 per cent, followed by South-East Asia region with five per cent of cases.



It added that researches showed that malaria vectors now resisted insecticides such as pyrethoids, organocholrines, carbamates and organophosphates across the regions of Africa, America, South-East Asia and others.



The report partly reads, “In 2017, an estimated 219 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide, compared with 239 million cases in 2010 and 217 million cases in 2016. Although there was an estimated 20 million fewer malaria cases in 2017 than in 2010, data for the period 2015-2017 highlight that no significant progress in reducing global malaria cases was made in this timeframe.”



“The 10 highest burden countries in Africa reported increases in cases of malaria in 2017 compared with 2016. Of these, Nigeria, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of the Congo had the highest estimated increases, all greater than half a million cases.”
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