{"id":174047,"date":"2024-06-07T07:29:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T05:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-malaria-2030-nmep-tasks-nigerians-on-behavioural-change-to-achieve-target\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T07:29:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T05:29:06","slug":"nigeria-malaria-2030-nmep-tasks-nigerians-on-behavioural-change-to-achieve-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-malaria-2030-nmep-tasks-nigerians-on-behavioural-change-to-achieve-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Malaria 2030 &#8211; NMEP Tasks Nigerians On Behavioural Change to Achieve Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>According to Mr Ntadom, &#8220;human behaviour&#8221; contributes to the challenges in the fight against malaria in Nigeria.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">As Nigeria targets malaria elimination by 2030, the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) has harped on the importance of behavioural change to reduce the burden of malaria and achieve the set target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The National Coordinator of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.gov.ng\/Source\/35\/NMEP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NMEP<\/a><\/strong>, Godwin Ntadom, made the call Wednesday during an interview with journalists in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/promoted\/701292-pepsi-unveils-new-visual-identity-with-takeovers-of-iconic-landmarks-in-lagos-and-abuja.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abuja<\/a><\/strong> at the Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria Learning and Transition&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406070050.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Mr Ntadom, &#8220;human behaviour&#8221; contributes to the challenges in the fight against malaria in Nigeria. As Nigeria targets malaria elimination by 2030, the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) has harped on the importance of behavioural change to reduce the burden of malaria and achieve the set target. The National Coordinator of NMEP, Godwin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[12464,258,256,22678,7796,7993,257,4687,393,6665,48717,254,7594,12210],"class_list":["post-174047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-achieve","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-behavioural","tag-change","tag-malaria","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-nmep","tag-south-africa-today","tag-target","tag-tasks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}