The Kogi State Government will distribute 3,141,485 insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) to households throughout the state from November 8 to fifteen, 2026, in its first free statewide distribution train in 9 years.
The marketing campaign is being organised by the state authorities in collaboration with the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) and Malaria Consortium to cut back malaria transmission and promote preventive healthcare.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Abdulazeez Adams Adeiza, disclosed this throughout a media engagement in Lokoja, the place he highlighted the persistent public well being and financial challenges posed by malaria.
Adeiza, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Maji Enoch, mentioned the marketing campaign was geared toward lowering the illness burden by enhancing entry to insecticide-treated nets.
He described malaria as a life-threatening illness transmitted by means of the bites of contaminated feminine Anopheles mosquitoes, noting that it remained a significant public well being problem due to its results on healthcare prices, productiveness and livelihoods.
According to the commissioner, Nigeria accounts for twenty-four.3 per cent of worldwide malaria circumstances yearly and an estimated 30.3 per cent of the 579,000 malaria-related deaths recorded worldwide annually, citing 2025 knowledge from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
He, nonetheless, famous that the 2025 Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey confirmed that malaria prevalence nationwide declined from 22 per cent in 2021 to fifteen.2 per cent in 2025.
Kogi State recorded a malaria prevalence of 8.9 per cent within the 2025 survey, however Adeiza warned that the illness continued to disrupt actions in colleges, workplaces, farms and markets, undermining productiveness and imposing monetary stress on households.
He mentioned billions of naira had been misplaced yearly to malaria by means of therapy and prevention bills, in addition to working hours misplaced to the illness.
The commissioner recognized sleeping underneath insecticide-treated nets as one of the efficient methods to forestall malaria, noting that research had proven that their use may scale back malaria incidence by 50 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa, which accounts for greater than 90 per cent of worldwide malaria circumstances.
He urged residents to benefit from the free distribution train, describing it as an necessary alternative to strengthen malaria prevention throughout the state after 9 years with out a statewide free web distribution marketing campaign.
The train will likely be applied by the Kogi State Ministry of Health by means of its Malaria Elimination Programme, in collaboration with the NMEP and Malaria Consortium.
Adeiza mentioned personnel carrying uniforms bearing the malaria marketing campaign emblem would go to households to register residents and distribute the nets.
He urged households to make sure that no less than one consultant was obtainable in the course of the train to finish registration and accumulate the nets allotted to them.
The commissioner additionally suggested beneficiaries to air newly collected nets within the shade for twenty-four hours earlier than hanging them. He urged residents to make sure that the nets had been correctly tucked round sleeping areas and used each evening all year long.
Adeiza known as on residents to help the marketing campaign by means of constant use of the nets, stressing that collective participation was important to lowering malaria transmission and enhancing public well being outcomes throughout Kogi State.
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