Dr Betty Bandoh Oppong, a Research Scientist at the Biomedical and Public Health Research Unit (BPHRU), Water Research Institute (WRI), and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has called on citizens to join forces to eliminate malaria.
This, he said, would safeguard lives, especially the vulnerable, and increase productivity.
Among the vulnerable are pregnant women who could have stillbirths, preeclampsia, low-weight babies, and loss of babies to malaria, and children under five years, who could suffer less concentration in school due to anaemia, convulsions, or even death from malaria.
Dr Oppong made the call at the observation of the 2025 World Malaria Day by the BPHRU in Accra on the theme: "From Bites to Breakthroughs - Reinvest, Reimagine, and Reignite" and the sub-theme: "Sharing Concepts of Disease Prevention and Control to Reignite Investments in Malaria Research".
