President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) resulted in a 36 percent reduction in malaria parasites found in the blood of children under age five, per the Malaria Indicator Survey. Between 20, malaria interventions through the U.S. We support efforts to decrease the number of malaria-related deaths in pregnant women and children each year by increasing access to and availability of treatment, insecticide-treated bed nets, and re-treatment kits. Nigeria still has the highest burden of malaria globally which remains the top cause of child illness and death. In 2016, in collaboration with Nigeria’s National Tuberculosis Program we are rolling out a new drug regime for Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis that will significantly reduce treatment times. In 2015, we supported the diagnosis and notification of nearly 40,000 people infected with TB and is poised to double that rate by the end of 2017.
We support quality tuberculosis treatment for adults and children by linking them to primary health care centers and resources, including laboratory test kits and anti-retroviral medications. More than one million children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV receive care and support through these programs. Activities focus on expanding programs that prevent transmission to the most at risk populations, while also stopping the high rate of mother to child transmission. Government, through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), currently assists more than 600,000 Nigerians with life-saving HIV therapy, which is 90 percent of the people living with HIV/AIDS in country. The country has the second largest number of people living with HIV globally and accounts for nine percent of the global HIV burden. Department of Defense Walter Reed Program, we assist Nigeria to build its capacity to manage HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis cases by strengthening the primary health care system and focusing efforts on prevention, detection, and treatment. These activities take place throughout the country. In partnership with the Centers for Disease Control, and the U.S. To help address its high mortality rates, USAID supports increased access to quality family planning and reproductive health services, immunizations, polio eradication, malaria prevention and maternal health services. We work with the Government of Nigeria to encourage greater budget expenditures for health. With its rapidly growing population and development challenges, the country drags down the socioeconomic indicators for the entire African continent.
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