New Delhi: India will aim to eliminate malaria by 2027, the health minister said on Wednesday as he launched the national strategic plan for malaria elimination (2017-22). The new Strategic Plan gives year wise elimination targets in various parts of the country depending upon the endemicity of malaria in the next 5 years. New interventions for case management and vector control such as rapid diagnostic tests, artemisinin-based combination therapy and Long Lasting Insecticidal nets (LLINs) were introduced under the strategic plan last year. Union health ministry has especially been focussing on Long Lasting Impregnated Nets (LLINs) for past three years. “We have been sensitising the states and union territories to run their own malaria elimination programmes.

Source: Mint July 12, 2017 19:52 UTC