{"id":16332,"date":"2024-11-27T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/?p=16332"},"modified":"2024-11-27T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T13:48:08","slug":"nigeria-loses-1-1-billion-to-malaria-yearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/nigeria-loses-1-1-billion-to-malaria-yearly\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria loses $1.1 billion to malaria yearly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, Nigeria loses over $1.1 billion to malaria which has a huge effect on the country&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).<\/p>\n<p>It was during the inaugural meeting of the Advisory on Malaria Elimination in Nigeria (AMEN) in Abuja that the Coordinating Minister of Health &amp; Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, revealed it.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that malaria is not just a health issue but it is also an economic emergency that must be sorted out urgently.<\/p>\n<p>He further explained that Nigeria have recorded 27% of malaria cases and 31% of malaria-related deaths.<\/p>\n<p>He said that in the year, 2022, it was malaria that killed over 180,000 Nigerian children (5 years old age bracket).<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the federal government has taken a strategic move to launch the advisory board which will aid in alleviating malaria and its impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, Nigeria loses over $1.1 billion to malaria which has a huge effect on the country&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It was during the inaugural meeting of the Advisory on Malaria Elimination in Nigeria (AMEN) in Abuja that the Coordinating Minister of Health &amp; Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, revealed it. He stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1589,1588,1590],"class_list":{"0":"post-16332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"tag-advisory-on-malaria-elimination-in-nigeria-amen","9":"tag-gross-domestic-product-gdp","10":"tag-malaria"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16340,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16332\/revisions\/16340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}