The fight against malaria faces many obstacles, including funding cuts. But it remains far cheaper to prevent the disease than to treat it.
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There are many reasons that malaria is so persistent in Africa. Four of them are poverty, human movement, resistance and climate change.
A combination of herbs in Nigeria should be evaluated further as it offers potential to treat malaria, which is endemic in the country.
Nigeria must invest more in research and incorporate World Health Organisation-recommended interventions to eliminate malaria.
Genetic diversity of a parasite population might help us watch for drug-resistant parasites.
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Professor in Molecular Parasitology and Genetics, Federal University, Oye Ekiti
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Professor of Pharmacology, University of Ibadan
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Professor, University of Ibadan
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Lecturer, University of Lagos
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Director: UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria
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UP ISMC: Project Manager and Coordinator, University of Pretoria