Each rainy season, Nigeria faces a familiar reckoning — stagnant water, rising mosquito populations, and the return of malaria's devastating toll. Carrying nearly a third of the world's malaria deaths and 68.4 million annual cases, Nigeria stands at the center of a global health crisis that is both ancient and urgently unresolved. Health experts and international coalitions are renewing calls for insecticide-treated nets, environmental sanitation, and behavioral change, even as mosquitoes grow resistant to the tools long used against them. The disease endures not for lack of knowledge, but for
Nigeria's malaria crisis demands urgent ITN adoption as rainy season peaks
Nigeria's malaria burden kills approximately 194,000 people annually, including disproportionate child mortality; a three-year-old boy died from malaria after delayed hospital treatment.