Nigeria's current national malaria control body, created in 2013 when the Federal Council on Health renamed the existing National Malaria Control Programme as the National Malaria Elimination Programme, reflecting a shift in national ambition from controlling malaria toward eliminating it. Malaria control is Nigeria's oldest disease control effort, dating to 1948, and a dedicated Malaria Control Programme established in 1986 had aimed to cut malaria illness and death by 75 percent; the renamed National Malaria Elimination Programme, abbreviated NMEP, is now responsible for setting national malaria policy and guidelines, coordinating the activities of partners and state and local malaria programs, mobilizing resources, and monitoring and evaluating the country's progress toward elimination.
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Program StatusActive; NMEP's own website, copyrighted 2023, presents current mission, vision and goal content for the national malaria elimination effort. 1 Target PopulationThe whole population of Nigeria; NMEP's own mission statement names Nigerians at risk of malaria as its addressed population. 1 Health GoalTo reduce malaria burden to pre-elimination levels and bring malaria-related mortality to zero. 1 Geographic ScopeNigeria, nationwide; NMEP's own mission statement addresses the whole Nigerian population by name. 1 Classification
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1. NMEP Official Website (Nigeria)
National Malaria Elimination Programme, Abuja, Nigeriasite footer, every page
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Mission and Vision page, Our Mission section
To free Nigerians from the scourge of malaria through leadership and coordination in developing policies, strategies, and guidelines that would ensure the delivery of high impact malaria interventions equitably with a high sense of accountability.
Mission and Vision page, Our Goal section
To reduce malaria burden to pre-elimination levels and bring malaria-related mortality to zero.
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The meeting platform was leveraged for advocacy to key stakeholders for increased funding for malaria control activities in Nigeria as well as initiate resource mobilization efforts for the implementation of the New Strategic plan.
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