Ned Nwoko Foundation, partners to roll out new malaria vaccine

The Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation malaria eradication project is to lead other partners in the nationwide promotion and rollout of RTS’S, the new malaria vaccine which the World Health Organization (WHO) recently approved for wide use in countries.

The Federal Ministry of Health gave the approval following the foundation’s earlier offer to avail its malaria eradication platform for coordination of the national response to implement the RTSS vaccine in Nigeria.

In a statement on Tuesday, Ned Nwoko, the Chairman of Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation expressed delight with the WHO’s approval of the widespread use in countries of RTS,S, the world’s first malaria vaccine.

The ex-lawmaker expressed the readiness of his foundation to join hands with the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders through strategic partnerships to promote and implement the RTSS malaria vaccine in Nigeria.

Tribune Online gathered that this year, the Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation malaria eradication project submitted a proposal to the Minister of Health offering its support and requesting the Federal Ministry’s green light to lead the proposed roll out of RTSS Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme (MVIP) in Nigeria.

The Minister approved the proposal for the foundation to lead in the anticipated roll-out of the RTS,S vaccine in Nigeria upon approval of the vaccine by the WHO.

The Foundation commended government and donors for their efforts in achieving the continued decline in malaria prevalence in the last decade while noting that Nigeria has achieved progressive reductions in malaria prevalence from 42% to 27% and then 23% in three distinct population surveys conducted in children less than 5 years in 2010, 2015 and 2018 respectively with temporal and geographic variation in the geopolitical zones and states.

The statement assured that the Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation, through her Malaria Eradication Project, would continue to support a strong national response to mobilize strategic partnerships and resources towards the RTSS malaria vaccine programme implementation in Nigeria by effecting appropriate infrastructure upgrade to execute the project.

While urging support of the efforts of government through the collaboration for the MVIP following the vaccine’s approval by the WHO, the Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation called on the public and private sector partners to come on board, as efforts are currently on to establish a strong multi-sector partnership to drive this great process that also requires the optimal use of existing interventions, in addition to the vaccines to deploy a comprehensive package for effective malaria control and eradication.

The foundation expressed its belief that Nigeria, as the country with the highest malaria burden globally, where high impact is needed, a strong local response is urgently required. It added that such a response would help to achieve targets set in the National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP) spanning 2021 to 2025.

Recall that last month, the foundation collaborated with the WHO to co-host a virtual sideline event tagged Global Action for a Malaria Free Africa (GAMFA) during this year’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, United States (USA) The aim was to discuss the critical need of accelerating not just the control and elimination but eradication of malaria in Nigeria and Africa.

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