Nigeria loses $1.1bn annually to malaria, Health minister laments

The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Pate, has said the annual loss to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product from malaria exceeds $1.1bn. Pate said this at the inaugural meeting of the Advisory on Malaria Elimination in Nigeria in Abuja. A statement issued by the ministry’s Deputy Director of Information and Public Relations,