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India Needs to Focus on Prevention of Malaria: WHO Experts
India needs to root out the micro killer by adopting effective means of preventing malaria. As of now, the battle against the mosquito menace is fully concentrated on treating the disease.
Anti-malaria projects have come to mean developing and procuring enough effective kits for testing for malaria parasites and anti-malarial drugs to treat affected and susceptible populations in malaria-prone areas in India.
India is still struggling to control mosquito-borne diseases like malaria in spite of major US fund allocation of $ 97,600 for malaria control and Kala Azar programs under biennium 2006-2007 of the WHO and around US $827,764 received in India from other donors, funding agencies and partner sources (as on 31 August 2007).
Sources at the WHO India office are of the opinion that the inappropriate malaria treatment policy of the Indian government is one of the reasons that the malaria menace is still rampant in the country.
Now, thankfully most agencies working with the anti-malaria mission are moving towards devising better preventive measures to stop the spread of both malarial vector and parasites. The Union ministry of health and family welfare has joined hands with WHO to accelerate the drive to control the menace.
Dr Jai P Narain, director, Communicable Diseases and Surveillance department of WHO said, It must, however, adopt an integrated approach to come out a winner against this vector-borne disease.
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