Malaria research in Nigeria- A literature review

Abstract

This study summarizes all the relevant research regarding malaria in Nigeria using epidemiological studies. it describes the events, aspects and areas that are researched on regarding malaria.This study confirms that a greater proportion of the studies on malaria research in Nigeria are descriptive epidemiological studies. The other group of studies mostly identified come from from animal studies and intervention studies respectively. Also, gaps still exist and this is because there are few analytical studies conducted on malaria in Nigeria.