| Author: Dr. Uzodinma A. Adirieje |
| InfoShare Partner: Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association |
| Publication Date: March 2004 |
| Type of Document: Article/Report/Paper |
| Topics: Infectious diseases, other |
| Region: Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Language: English |
| Additional information: About the Author: Dr. Uzodinma A. Adirieje - health and development researcher, writer and advocate, is the Secretary General of Nigeria-based Afrihealth Optonet Association, a not-for-profit NGO. He is on the editorial board of WHO’s ‘HIF-net@WHO’, moderates the ‘nigeriahealth’ e-mail forum. He is a community leader and the 1st Vice President of the Imo State Towns Development Association Lagos, made up of 500, 000 members.
He attended Imo State University, Okigwe, Nigeria, earning a Doctor of Optometry (O.D.) degree in 1988, with interests in public health and ophthalmic complications/manifestations of diseases. A contributing editor/columnist to the ‘Medical Digest’ journal and ‘Imo Express’ newspaper, Dr. Adirieje has written about 30 health care and human development publications. His booklet on 'HIV/AIDS Care: beyond ARVs and advocacy', was displayed and distributed at the Nigerian stand at the 13th ICASA in Nairobi, September 2003.
He had worked in government and private health institutions in northern and southern Nigeria, participated in health care projects of Rotary International District 9110, Nigeria, and coordinated various health campaigns in rural and poor urban communities in Lagos. A public opinion/policy influencer, Dr. Adirieje has made appearances/contributions on televisions and in newspapers in Nigeria. His hobbies include public speaking, social/community work, voluntary/international services and tennis. |
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In year 2000, African leaders at the Abuja conference on Roll-Back malaria issued the Abuja Declaration in which they declared that malaria accounts for about one million deaths annually in Africa. Today, tens of thousands of the continent's children and nursing mothers still die annually from malaria. In Nigeria alone, malaria accounts for 30 per cent of death in children less than 5 years of age and 11 per cent of deaths among pregnant women. Practical anti-malaria strategies that have been brought into the field of all stakeholders; and financial resource that have been committed to laboratory research for the development of a vaccine against malaria by the continent have hardly been significant. The continent has probably more resources to hosting and attending conferences on malaria, than she has commensurately spent in intervention measures against the disease, in order to achieve the Abuja Declaration's target of halving Africa's malaria mortality by 2010, through implementing the strategies and actions for Roll Back Malaria. More needs to be done to contain malaria in Nigeria and Africa, apart from conferences and conferences.
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