America votes $68m to fight malaria in Nigeria

• Published date: 19 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The United States plans to spend $68 million to fight malaria in Nigeria.

A document released in Washington DC on Wednesday said the money would be spent under the Presidential Malaria Initiative (PMI).

The funding will support monitoring activities which include insecticide resistance testing in all 11 PMI focus states and five non-PMI focus States.

The beneficiary States include Enugu and Kaduna, Abia, Ekiti, Kogi, Kebbi and Sokoto.

'In addition, PMI will continue to support the procurement and distribution of ITNs through mass campaigns, providing technical support to the country's CY 2024 mass distributions through participation and supporting social and behavior change (SBC) to improve the use and care of ITNs.

PMI will also maintain the support of streamlined durability monitoring of Interceptor G2 nets (Interceptor G2) in Kebbi State,' the statement said. PMI plans to procure 5.6 million Interceptor G2 for mass campaigns in Oyo State.

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The statement added: 'PMI Nigeria will continue to support activities to strengthen malaria in pregnancy (MIP) services and improve uptake of intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women

(IPTp), including: strengthening national and state level MIP coordination structures in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH) Reproductive Health (RH) Division; supporting the revision of MIP guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs),

training manuals, and job aids to address barriers to uptake of IPTp; and expanding the introduction of the revised guidelines to medical training institutions and other relevant professional associations. PMI will continue to support facility antenatal care (ANC)

provider training and mentoring on MIP, fund facility ANC HWs supervision and clinical meetings in targeted health facilities (HF) to strengthen MIP implementation, and intensify advocacy to federal and state health authorities to procure...