Catherine Falade Quotes

Secondly, some patients have COVID-19 and won’t want the health workers to screen them. They want immediate attention. The health care workers are human beings too. But as much as possible, we are making efforts to ensure that everybody gets attended to. But we must take precaution.

They should be informed by healthcare givers, community centres, the media and all stakeholders that what the vaccine does is to reduce the attack of malaria and not to totally prevent it

It is important for the populace to know that malaria has no particular signs and symptoms. The signs and symptoms you get in malaria are the same as what you will get in any infection like pneumonia, hepatitis, or some other viral infection. Even with a boil that is not in a very visible place, there could be a fever, headache, as well as aches and pains. It thus becomes important that malaria diagnosis is confirmed by laboratory diagnosis using malaria rapid diagnostic test or quality-assured microscopy.

The malaria vaccine reduces prevalence, morbidity, and mortality from malaria attacks; the concern is that people take three antigens and then take the vaccines.

The masses in Nigeria, particularly at the grassroots, need to be properly informed about this. Otherwise, Nigerians will read another meaning into the efforts of government and the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Antibiotic resistance is present in every country. Patients with infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria are at risk of worse clinical outcomes and death.

In July 2015, the European Medicines Agency issued a positive scientific opinion on the vaccine’s risk-benefit balance.

In October 2015, two independent WHO advisory groups recommended the pilot implementation of RTS, S/ASO1 in parts of three to five sub-Saharan African countries.

A pharmaceutical error can wipe out a generation of people, so there is need for government to sanction producers of counterfeit malaria drugs.

More researches should be encouraged for non-communicable disease like malaria while rational and acceptable use of recommended drug should be encouraged.

WHO has adopted these recommendations and is strongly supportive of the need to proceed with the pilots as the next step for the world’s first malaria vaccine.

I call for coordinated action globally to minimise the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance to malaria and all countries need national action plans for malaria-resistant drugs.

They consume more health-care resources than patients infected with non-resistant strains of the same bacteria.

A lot of the adults say chloroquine works because they had never had malaria to start with. They were probably stressed or tired from too much work or a hectic lifestyle. So, instead of resting, they conclude that they have malaria and then go ahead to take chloroquine before retiring to bed. By the time they have slept for a day or two, they feel fine, and they assume that they had malaria that chloroquine cured.