The has urged the private sector to get involved in malaria elimination and invest in evidence-based interventions and innovative approaches to build on Ghana's success story in the fight against the disease. The Health Minister, Kwabena Minta Akandoh, made the call in a speech read on his behalf by Professor Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), at the 2025 World Malaria Day commemoration in Accra on Friday.
He said the private sector had a vital role to play in the elimination of malaria and urged companies to make its control a key part of their corporate social responsibility through workplace programmes, research sponsorship and co-financing of community interventions. "When we reinvest in malaria elimination, we are not just preventing the disease but building human capital, unlocking productivity, advancing equity and laying the groundwork for economic transformation," he quoted the minister as saying.
Prof Akoriyea stressed the need to extend the elimination of malaria beyond the health sector and be woven into the national development agenda through city planning, environmental management and children's education. He underscored the need to reignite public passion by empowering communities with knowledge and tools and by engaging traditional and religious leaders, youth groups and civil society organisations to drive behaviour change and demand accountability.
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