Arunachal Pradesh best performer in Malaria Elimination

ITANAGAR, Arunachal Pradesh: On World Malaria Day, Arunachal Pradesh received a certificate from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India for its efforts to achieve Malaria elimination.

Arunachal Pradesh received the certificate from MoHFW for the efforts it made to achieve the goal of making India Malaria free by 2030. The data shows that the number of cases in Arunachal was 13,950 in 2011, it was 3128 in 2016 and in 2021, it is 8. Due to its efforts, Arunachal Pradesh moved from category 3 to category 1.

National Framework for Malaria Elimination in India 2016-30 is a flagship programme of the Government of India, which aims to make India Malaria free by 2030. Under this programme, states and union territories are categorised based on Annual Parasite Incidence (API) per thousand in four categories. (i) Category 0 – prevention of re-establishment phase, (ii) Category 1 – Elimination Phase, (iii) Category 2 – Pre-elimination Phase (iv) Category 3 – Intensified Control Programme. World Malaria Day was adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the World Health Assembly of 2007, to highlight the need and create awareness for a sustained political effort for malaria elimination. This year’s theme of Malaria Day is “Harness Innovation to Reduce the Malaria Disease Burden and Save Lives”.