Malaria In Nigeria Essay

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Comparison of Nigeria and Malawi
Malaria is among one of the most prevalent diseases attacking and showing little to no mercy to those who fall victim. This life threatening disease is spread from person to person, proving to be the most challenging especially amongst underdeveloped countries. However, it is one of the largest diseases worldwide. Plasmodium falciparum is a protozoan parasite amongst one of the species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans. This lethal infectious disease is transmitted by a parasitic infection spread by female Anopheles mosquitoes. Pregnant women infected by Malaria undergo various other health complications such as inheriting low birthweight is estimated to result in 100,000 infant deaths in Africa. Anemia, …show more content…

The most common vectors in Malawi are the Anopheles gambiae, A. funestus, and A. arabiensis. In comparison to Malawi Nigeria is also a high endemic country for malaria. In Nigeria malaria transmitted throughout the whole year due to its distinct rainy and dry seasons. Progress in Malaria prevalence in both countries have been made, however, in Malawi a little less than half of outpatient visits are due to malaria and correspondingly in Nigeria the disease reportedly accounts for over half, estimated 60% of outpatient hospital visits. Pregnant women are still subject to vulnerability in both …show more content…

Steps to reach this goal varied from standardized IPTp doses of SP to sleeping under an ITN. Targets specifically in Malaria have been elevated from 60% to 80%. Malawi’s current status in 2010 60.3% of pregnant women had access to and received two or more doses of IPTp for malaria prevention. 49.9% of their women slept under an ITN. Correspondingly in Nigeria efforts were also made to prevent the spread of malaria in pregnant women and others. They adapted the artemisinin combination therapy (ACT), which is a first line drug treatment in malaria endemic regions. In addition to ACT they also made use of long lasting insecticide nets (LLIN), intermittent prevention treatment (IPT) for pregnant women. Complementary community-directed intervention (CDI) programs were created in Nigeria to utilize by each village to deliver ITNs and IPTp drugs as well as basic counseling services to pregnant

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