“…Nevertheless, in the areas where malaria infection is most endemic, the major cause of anaemia is malaria (Agagliati et al, 2022;Keating et al, 2021;WHO, 2021b;Ibeji et al, 2022). Malaria is attributed to anaemia prevalence, and high mortality rate and morbidity in children under the age of 5 years (Sardar et al, 2021;Fischer, 2021;Gayawan et al, 2022;Okell et al, 2022). Anaemia is said to be responsible for half of malaria related deaths in areas with high rate of malaria infection (Keating et al, 2021;Bahati et al, 2022;Papaioannou et al, 2019).…”