Rebecca Ejifoma
Professor
of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences,
Prof. Wellington Aghoghovwia Oyibo, has called for democratisation of malaria
diagnosis across the country as Nigeria and the Republic of Congo rank highest
among malaria endemic countries in Africa.
“Democratising
malaria diagnosis will ensure availability and performance of a user-friendly
malaria test made for the people, used by the people and useful to the people.”
He gave this crayon call during his inaugural lecture, ‘Parasitus
Facultas Et Humanum Intelligentia: The Footprints of a Medical Parasitologist
in the Neglected Tropical Parasitic Diseases, NTDs, and Malaria Landscape’ at
the 7th Inaugural Lecture of the University of Lagos.