Assuntos
Redes Comunitárias/ética , Participação da Comunidade/psicologia , Mosquiteiros Tratados com Inseticida/provisão & distribuição , Malária/epidemiologia , Malária/prevenção & controle , Aedes/parasitologia , Animais , Anopheles/parasitologia , Pesquisa Biomédica/ética , Criança , Feminino , Humanos , Malária/transmissão , Mosquitos Vetores/parasitologia , Nigéria/epidemiologiaRESUMO
Globally, Nigeria contributes the greatest proportion of the malaria disease burden. She currently bears the heaviest malaria burden (25% cases) and (19% deaths). Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitoes however, a higher parasite biomass (99%) is found in man while only one (1%) is found in mosquitoes. Lending credence to this is the outcome of investigations carried out in Gboko and Otukpo Local Government Areas (LGAs); in which more humans (36.8%) had the malaria parasites than the anthropophagic female Anopheles (0.5%). Control efforts focused on mosquitoes are undermined by the actions or inactions of humans. Nigeria needs to self-audit her role in sustaining the heaviest burden of a preventable, curable disease that can also be eliminated. She can only ignore this imperative at her own peril.
