Prevention and Elimination of Malaria in India

Abstract

India, just like many other countries in the world, has been combating malaria for a long time. Its geographical location along with its climate and general economic situation, have been causing the country to be a common habitat for malaria, which is a vector-borne disease carried by mosquitoes, as they mainly thrive in swamps or undrained ponds that are prevalent in India throughout the year. Witnessing the rise of the spread of malaria in India, the government does not just sit back and practice non-intervention, rather, over the past decades, the government, though not often entirely successful, have been developing various strategies and programs in countering the disease. Some of the most crucial ones include the National Malaria Control Programme in 1953 and agencies established include the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme that has been developing plans for total eradication of malaria by 2030. Some of the strategies include traditional use of pesticides, while others are about distributing medications and improving surveillance programs in tracking the disease.