A three-day regional review meeting of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) project states organised by National Center for Vector Borne Diseases Control (NCVBDC), Department of Health and Family Welfare (DoH&FW) commenced Thursday at Niathu Resort, Chumoukedima.
A press release by the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), Directorate of Health and Family Welfare (DoH&FW) Nagaland informed that the delegates from Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and various North East States would be participating in the three-day review meeting.
On Thursday, the meeting was initiated by joint director, and state programme officer (NVBDCP), Dr. Neisakho Kere while joint director, HoD Malaria Division, NVBDCP, Delhi, Dr. Rinku Sharma presented the status of malaria in the 10 GFATM project states.
Dr. Rinku briefly highlighted the background and milestones in Malaria Programme in India since its inception in 1953 and the goals and targets to achieve total malaria elimination by the year 2030.
She also presented the Malaria Elimination Progress in India since 2015 to 2022.
Dr. Rinku stated that both the high malaria case reporting states and low or zero malaria case reporting states would be focused in this elimination programme.
She further presented state-wise malaria reporting status and informed that a total of 103 entomological zones were identified in India which are support by the GFATM and the government of India.
Dr. Rinku also urged all the states to implement Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) Malaria Portal, which was a real time reporting of malaria cases entered via the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) portal. She further informed the states to designate one person to cross check the entries on a daily basis.
Later, delegates from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Nagaland states presented their respective state’s vector borne diseases Status, their achievements, and gaps and challenges faced in the implementation of Intensified Malaria Elimination Project-2 (IMEP-2).