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NIGERIA

Nigeria and the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) first teamed up to fight malaria in 2011. This West African nation is the most populous country in Africa with an estimated population of 191 million and the highest malaria burden in the world. PMI supports malaria control and prevention programs in 11 out of 36 states in Nigeria, reaching approximately 56 million people. In recent years, Nigeria made substantial progress toward malaria control with malaria deaths reducing from 200,000 in 2006 to 95,000 deaths in 2019.