Nigeria National Malaria Elimination Programme

13/08/2025

This rainy season, malaria is waiting- but SMC is ready! Protect your child today.

Present children aged 3 to 59 months living in eligible LGAs to receive the malaria preventive medicines.

11/08/2025

The National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) is receiving applications for the following positions.

Click on the links for more information on the vacancies.

Qualified applicants will be contacted.

PSM Officer: https://nmcp.gov.ng/2025/08/08/vacancy-notice-procurement-and-supply-chain-management-officer/
https://ng.indeed.com/jobs?q=national+malaria+elimination+programme&l=Abuja&radius=25&from=searchOnDesktopSerp&vjk=4d11f3335d59f4b9

Programme Officer: https://nmcp.gov.ng/2025/08/08/vacancy-notice-programme-officer/

https://ng.indeed.com/jobs?q=national+malaria+elimination+programme&l=Abuja&radius=25&from=searchOnDesktopSerp&vjk=8f7c01f1b516cd01

Finance Manager
https://nmcp.gov.ng/2025/08/08/vacancy-notice-finance-manager/
https://ng.indeed.com/jobs?q=national+malaria+elimination+programme&l=Abuja&radius=25&from=searchOnDesktopSerp&vjk=06bc5e2c3e5348a8

M&E Specialist, Gombe
https://nmcp.gov.ng/2025/08/09/vacancy-notice-m-e-specialist-gombe-state/https://ng.indeed.com/viewjob?cmp=National-Malaria-Elimination-Programme&t=Monitoring%20Specialist&jk=113d3fb14f43e1b7&xpse=SoBf67I3uMLfTGx2Nh0LbzkdCdPP&xfps=c9a3792d-ef67-4d83-94a8-341e0a65bd0c&xkcb=SoAk67M3uMLf00zZhx0LbzkdCdPP&vjs=3

ACSM Specialist, Gombehttps://nmcp.gov.ng/2025/08/08/vacancy-notice-acsm-specialist-gombe/https://ng.indeed.com/viewjob?cmp=National-Malaria-Elimination-Programme&t=Acsm+Specialist%2C+Gombe+Sub-recipient&jk=990d9db82fc71f79&xpse=SoBJ67I3uMLfZIA1xb0LbzkdCdPP&xfps=d317d7cf-9da3-4969-80d3-c13be34706bf&xkcb=SoCQ67M3uMLf00zZhx0KbzkdCdPP&vjs=3

08/08/2025

How does malaria affect human development?

Malaria affects human development in several powerful and long-lasting ways:
1. Education
Missed School Days: Children infected with malaria often miss school due to illness.

Poor Learning Outcomes: Frequent infections lead to reduced concentration and cognitive development.

Dropout Risk: Repeated illness can contribute to school dropouts, especially in poor communities.

2. Economic Productivity
Reduced Work Capacity: Adults with malaria are often too sick to work, leading to lower household income.

Loss of Livelihoods: For farmers or laborers, missing even a few days during planting or harvesting season can severely affect food production and income.

National Economic Burden: Countries with high malaria rates often experience slower economic growth due to healthcare costs and lost productivity.

3. Health System Strain
Overburdened Facilities: Malaria consumes a large share of health budgets, leaving fewer resources for other diseases.

Reduced Access: People may avoid or delay care due to cost or overcrowded facilities.

4. Poverty Trap
Cost of Care: Families spend money on treatment, travel, and recovery time—pushing them deeper into poverty.

Cycle of Vulnerability: Poor housing, lack of nets, and low access to healthcare increase the risk of infection, which then perpetuates poverty.

5. Maternal and Child Health
Pregnancy Complications: Malaria in pregnancy can cause miscarriages, stillbirth, low birth weight, and maternal death.

Child Mortality: It's one of the leading killers of children under 5 in endemic regions.

Malaria slows human development by weakening education, reducing productivity, worsening poverty, and straining health systems. Eliminating malaria is essential for achieving long-term human capital development and economic growth.

07/08/2025

Is malaria a health or developmental issue, and why?

Malaria is both a health and a developmental issue, and here’s why:

1. Health Issue
Disease Burden: Malaria directly affects human health, causing illness and death—especially among children under 5 and pregnant women.

Strain on Health Systems: It overwhelms hospitals and clinics, diverts resources from other health services, and requires ongoing investments in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

High Mortality: It remains one of the leading causes of death in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

2. Developmental Issue
Economic Loss: Malaria reduces productivity due to missed work and school days, and it increases household healthcare costs.

Poverty Cycle: Poor families are more exposed to malaria, and the disease itself keeps them in poverty by limiting their ability to work, learn, or invest in opportunities.

Education Disruption: Children who fall sick miss school, hindering educational outcomes and long-term human capital development.

Agricultural Impact: Malaria affects farmers’ ability to work during peak planting or harvesting seasons, impacting food security and income.

Malaria is a health issue because it directly harms people’s well-being, and a developmental issue because it hinders economic growth, education, and poverty reduction. Ending malaria supports both healthier populations and stronger economies.

06/08/2025

How can malaria elimination be tackled from an economic point of view?

Malaria elimination can be tackled from an economic point of view by strategically investing in and aligning financial, business, and policy mechanisms to reduce the disease burden.

Here are key approaches:
1. Increased Investment in Prevention and Control
Government funding should prioritize long-term savings by investing in insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), indoor residual spraying, and seasonal chemoprevention.
Cost-effective interventions like rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and ACT treatments reduce hospital visits and workforce downtime.

2. Economic Empowerment through Health
Healthy populations are more productive. Reducing malaria boosts workforce efficiency, agricultural output, and school attendance.
Businesses benefit from a healthier labor force, especially in agriculture, construction, and mining sectors where malaria risk is high.

3. Public-Private Partnerships
Encourage private sector investment in malaria-related supply chains (e.g., bed net manufacturing, pharmaceutical distribution).
Tax incentives or subsidies can promote innovation in malaria tools and diagnostics.

4. Integrating Malaria into Development Plans.
Include malaria elimination in national development and poverty reduction strategies.
Infrastructure projects (roads, drainage, housing) should consider mosquito control—e.g., avoiding stagnant water build-up.

5. Economic Data to Drive Policy
Use cost-benefit analyses to show how every naira spent on malaria control yields returns in saved healthcare costs and increased GDP.
Track economic losses from absenteeism and productivity drop due to malaria to inform better budgeting.

6. Job Creation through Malaria Programs
Engage local communities in sanitation, larviciding, and awareness campaigns, creating jobs and strengthening community ownership.

05/08/2025

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05/08/2025

The malaria Retreat in Akwa Ibom State being aired on Arise News.

01/08/2025

The National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) and partners are holding a malaria retreat with the House Committee on AIDS, Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Malaria (ATM) at Four point by Sheraton, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa-Ibom State.

The objectives of the meeting are to achieve a shared understanding of the malaria elimination response in Nigeria, explore opportunities for increased domestic resources for malaria, align on the role of the legislature in the control of malaria, and reach a consensus on collaborative efforts to achieve malaria elimination.

Picture 1 shows the Chair-ATM, Hon Amobi Godwin Ogar, giving his address.

Picture 2 shows the National Coordinator NMEP, Dr Nnenna Ogbulafor, giving her remarks.

Picture 3 shows meeting participants in a group photograph.

29/07/2025

The Kwara State Government in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Health and Development Partners has flagged off the 2025 Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) campaign in the State.

About seven hundred thousand (700,000) doses of Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine+ Amodiaquine (SPAQ) for Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) will be administered to eligible children.

The event held at Children's Specialist Hospital, Center Igboro, Kwara State.

Picture 1 shows the Representative of the Executive Governor of the State and Honourable Commissioner for Health, Dr Amina Ahmed El-Iman giving the Governor's address.

Picture 2 shows the State Permanent Secretary-Health, Dr Abdullahi Ayodeji Toheed giving his remarks.

Picture 3 shows the Representative of the National Coordinator, NMEP Mrs Eunice Akinyemi delivering the NC's remarks.

Picture 4 shows the Chairman, Ilorin South LGA giving his address at the event.

Pictures 5&6 show a symboic administration of SPAQ to eligible children by the Commissioner and Permanent Secretary of the State respectively.

29/07/2025

The Katsina State Government in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health and Development Partners has flagged off the 2025 Insecticide-Treated Nets (ITN) and Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) integrated campaign.

Over 4.5 million insecticide-treated nets (ITN) will be distributed to households and 2.3 million doses of Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine+ Amodiaquine (SPAQ) for seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) will be administered to eligible children in the State.

The integrated SMC/ITN campaign is a coordinated malaria prevention effort that combines two key interventions:

1. Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) – the monthly administration of antimalarial drugs (usually sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine + amodiaquine) to children aged 3–59 months during the peak malaria transmission season.

2. Insecticide-Treated Nets (ITNs) – the mass distribution and promotion of sleeping inside the insecticide-treated mosquito nets to prevent mosquito bites.

The objectives of an Integrated SMC/ITN campaign are to maximize impact by delivering both interventions simultaneously, improve cost-efficiency through shared logistics and community mobilization, reduce malaria morbidity and mortality, especially among children under 5, increase community coverage for both ITNs and SMC as well as encourage behavioral change through unified health messages.

Picture 1 shows the Representative of the Executive Governor of the State and the Honourable Commissioner of Health, Dr Musa Adamu giving the Governor's address.

Picture 2 shows the representative of the National Coordinator NMEP, Mrs Rashidat Abubakar giving the NC's remark.

Pictures 3&4 show Project Director, Society for Family Health (SFH) Mr John Ocholi and Project Director Management Sciences for Health (MSH) Mr Isaac Adejo giving their goodwill messages.

15/07/2025

The non-health sector plays a crucial role in complementing health interventions to achieve malaria control and eventual elimination.
Here's how different sectors can be more effectively involved:

1. Environmental & Urban Planning Sector.

Drainage Systems: Design and maintain proper drainage to prevent stagnant water, which is a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

Urban Development: Include mosquito control measures (like covered water storage) in housing and infrastructure plans.

Waste Management: Ensure regular clearing of refuse and blocked gutters to reduce mosquito habitats.

2. Education Sector
School Curriculum: Integrate malaria prevention education into science or health studies.

Community Outreach: Use schools as platforms to spread awareness to families and communities.

Clean-Up Campaigns: Organize student-led sanitation drives to reduce breeding sites.

3. Agriculture Sector
Irrigation Practices: Promote water management techniques that prevent waterlogging and mosquito breeding.

Farmer Education: Train farmers to identify and eliminate mosquito breeding sites near farmlands.

4. Private Sector & Employers
Workplace Programs: Provide mosquito nets, repellents, and malaria education to employees.

CSR Initiatives: Support malaria prevention campaigns, research, and provision of diagnostic or treatment supplies.

Infrastructure Investment: Fund or collaborate on building clinics, drainage systems, or housing with malaria-preventive features.

5. Media and Communication
Public Awareness: Use mass media (TV, radio, social media) to consistently promote malaria prevention and treatment messages.

Behavior Change Campaigns: Partner with creatives and influencers to shift public attitudes toward consistent net use and early testing.

6. Transport and Works
Infrastructure Projects: Ensure road construction and maintenance activities do not create stagnant pools of water.

Logistics Support: Help in the transportation of malaria commodities like insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and medicines to remote areas.

Water Resources Sector
Water Storage Safety: Promote use of covered tanks and containers to prevent breeding.

Community Water Supply Projects: Include vector control measures in all public water schemes.

7. Traditional and Religious Institutions
Community Mobilization: Use their influence to spread messages and encourage positive malaria prevention behaviors.

Support Net Distribution: Help organize and oversee the fair distribution of preventive materials.

Cross-sectorial collaboration is key. Malaria is not just a health issue—it’s a development challenge. When non-health sectors work together, they can significantly reduce malaria transmission and improve public health outcomes.

08/07/2025

Photobites from event