Challenges in the Management of Malaria in Nigeria: A Healthcare System Preview

Malaria remains a huge global health burden with more than 90% of fatalities occurs in Africa and about half a million infant mortality each year. Malarial infection is of particular concern as it is a disease that can be both treated and prevented. Nigeria, biggest country by population in Africa, is responsible for about 25% of global health burden. While all local and international efforts aim to implement Nigeria’s current National Strategic Malaria Plan [NMSP 2014-2020] to have Nigeria free of Malaria by 2020, the current healthcare system in Nigeria remains a major system bottleneck to achieving such challenging objective but yet still achievable.

This report on Nigeria’s current malaria situation aims to highlight healthcare system challenges that face Nigeria as a country, and possible plans that integrate both local and international initiatives to reach 2020 with a malaria-free country.The studies used in this review were retrieved from CINAHL Plus, MEDLINE, ProQuest and PUBMED databases focusing on Malaria and healthcare challenges in Nigeria. Google scholar was used on one occasion to obtain one full-text article
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Global Malaria Facts and Overview:
Malaria is a life-threatening disease that can be both prevented and treated which can dramatically reduce the burden of disease in the globe. There are about 3.2 billion people around the world at risk of infection, approximately half of the total world population, and about half a million people died in 2015 worldwide due to malaria infection.A comparison of incomes in a malarial versus non-malarial countries shows that income is five times higher in non-malarial countries. Where malaria infection flourishes, poverty and poor health outcome exist. Malaria-endemic countries have an impeding economic growth and development by both direct and indirect way such as productivity, healthcare cost, and infant mortality.

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