African gov'ts asked to commit resources for malarial control

The West Africa Regional Coordinator for the Next Generation Indoor Residual Project (NgenIRS), Andrew Deyi Saibu, has appealed to African governments and the private sector to commit more resources to support the Indoor Residual Spraying project. 

This, he said would help to control and eliminate malaria. Mr Saibu said this in an interview with the GNA on the sidelines of the 2017 Indoor Residual Spraying campaign launch in Karaga where it was announced that over 300 thousand rooms in seven districts in the Northern Region are to be sprayed against malaria.  

He said the last 15 years had seen progress towards the control and elimination of malaria and that it required the joint efforts of governments and the private sector to commit more resources to compliment efforts of donor and development partners to ensure total elimination of the disease.

Mr Saibu said to maintain protection from transmission and preserve the efficacy of the current pyrethroid-based LLINs, insecticide resistance management (IRM) using effective non-pyrethroid mosquito control interventions is urgently needed.  

He said over two million vulnerable people would be supported during the IRS campaign for Ghana, adding that Ghana is one of the twelve (12) beneficiary countries of the NgenIRS project in Africa .

GNA