The United States has disclosed plans to spend $68 million to fight malaria in Nigeria by providing funds for monitoring activities that would eradicate the menace.
This was diclosed in a document released in Washington DC.
It said the money would be spent under the Presidential Malaria Initiative.
It said the funding will support monitoring insecticide resistance testing in all 11 PMI focus states and five non-PMI focus States.
The beneficiary states include Enugu and Kaduna, Abia, Ekiti, Kogi, Kebbi and Sokoto.
Also, PMI Nigeria will support seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Benue and Zamfara, covering more than 2.2 million children aged 3-59 months.
