USAID, others pledge $82m lifeline to fight malaria

The United States Agency for International Development, USAID, and other multi-national collaborators have pledged $82 million towards the fight against scourge of malaria in the country.
U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Terrence McCulley, who said this at the launch of Malaria Action Projects for States, MAPS, added that his government was committed to partnering with African countries to build capacity in stamping out malaria.
He said:  “Under the  U S-funded President’s Malaria initiative,PMI, there are plans to work with partners to reduce by half the burden of malaria to 70 per cent of the at-risk populations in sub- Saharan African (approximately 450 million residents), thereby eliminating malaria as a major public concern and promoting development throughout Africa.”

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