Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Affordable Malaria Medicine in Nigeria

Here's a heartening article about a coalition that has just completed negotiations which will permit antimalarial medication to be sold in five Nigerian states (together containing about one-fifth of the population) for as little as N60.00 per dose (that's about 27 cents). Previously, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies had sold for anywhere between N800.00 and N2000.00. The Partnership for Transforming Health Systems, PATHS2, is a program of the United Kingdom Department for International Development. The initiative is a collaboration of PATHS2 with the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health, and some pharmaceutical manufacturing firms, working through the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria (AMFm) initiative. More details on the funding mechanism are here. Malaria accounts for 70% of all disease incidence in Nigeria; in 2008 there were 57,506,430 reported cases, of which 225,424 were fatal.

11 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing with us. this is such a great information. i have just bookmarked your site and waiting for your next post

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  2. Sorry for the multiple posts today, I just came across your blog for the first time and I love it. Great combination of extremely useful factual information along with some sarcasm and sense of humor. Great blog.

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  3. It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

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  4. Although there is a clear need to eradicate malaria, still the efforts to develop such kind of protection is still ongoing. Medications are available nowadays and a variety of antimalarial medications are available. This is really a helpful posts for us as we are also combating the said malarial-endemic here in our country.

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  6. Nigeria is known to be one of the countries in the world with the most highest cases in Malaria. The antimalarial medication will be a huge help to minimize the malaria cases especially since it is very affordable to the public.

    Two thumbs up for the organization and companies for this initiative!

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  7. Hope we find a possible remedy for Dengue as well. We need vaccines which can be developed cost-effective and provide long-term protection from these deadly tropical diseases.

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  8. as we know nowadays malaria is one of the illness that is really threatening, governments are trying there best to provide health info to its people.

    Please visit also http://www.medictax.com/ for some health awareness.

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  9. Malaria remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developing world including Nigeria,there is need to make effective antimalarial drugs accessible and affordable to the vast majority of patients both in the urban and rural areas.

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  10. Malaria is very alarming, the same as dengue fever, mosquitoes are everywhere, having a clean surroundings is one of the best way to avoid mosquitoes that have this kind of illness.

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  11. Malaria is indeed alarming. I do fear if this would be an epidemic. I feel a relief to know there are affordable medicine for Malaria in Nigeria. Kudos to those who are doing their best in producing the world medicine for such kind of illness.

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