China Donates Mosquito Nets, Anti-Malaria Drugs to Nigeria

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China Donates Mosquito Nets, Anti-Malaria Drugs to Nigeria

The Chinese government donation of 300 medicine-treated mosquito nets to Nigeria has arrived to mark the African Malaria Day, a tropical disease expert from Beijing said Friday in Abuja.

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The Chinese government donation of 300 medicine-treated mosquito nets to Nigeria has arrived to mark the African Malaria Day, a tropical disease expert from Beijing said Friday in Abuja.

Gong Wu, also Assistant Manager of Beijing COTEC New Technology Corp., said the bed nets will be distributed to rural people in malarious areas as a part of the Memorandum of Understanding in the Fields of Medical and Health Sciences between China and Nigeria.

"China is willing to help African countries to eliminate malaria and other tropical diseases," Gong said.

Beijing COTEC New Technology Corp. is well known in Nigeria for its anti-malaria drug known as COTECXIN, one of the best anti-malaria medicines in the world which sells well on the African continent.

According to the World Health Organization, more than 1 million people die of malaria a year, and 70 percent of them are children under five years of age.

Under the Agreement on Economic and Technical Cooperation Between China and Nigeria, China is to provide Nigeria a 30 million yuan (about 3.5 million US dollars) free aid, which is

reportedly to be used by the Nigerian government to buy medicine-treated bet nets and other malaria drugs from China.

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