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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India needs $18 billion to win battle against malaria -Sushmi Dey

India needs $18 billion to win battle against malaria -Sushmi Dey

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published Published on Dec 12, 2016   modified Modified on Dec 12, 2016
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: India, with the highest malaria burden outside Africa, will need an investment of $18 billion to achieve its 2030 deadline to eliminate the disease, says a latest estimate by the health ministry and malaria advocacy groups.

Severe malaria outbreaks in India, aggravated by poor sanitation and drainage, underline an urgent and growing need for financial commitment to deal with a menace estimated to inflict nearly $2 billion or Rs 13,520 crore in socioeconomic losses annually.

Senior health ministry officials, World Health Organisation (WHO), funders and malaria advocacy groups met in Chennai last week to consider strategies to shrink the global malaria map and took stock of India's anti-malaria efforts. The need for more finance comes even as statistics show India has seen a remarkable decline in malaria cases as well as deaths.

Malaria cases in India almost halved between 2000 and 2014, from 20 lakh to 11 lakh, with around 7.5 lakh cases and 188 deaths recorded till September this year. "The decline in the number of malaria cases in India is an indication for funding agencies and, more importantly, for the government to keep up the momentum because this is the most crucial stage," said Bruno Moonen, deputy director for malaria at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic funders of the malaria programme in India.

According to government estimates, $18 billion will be required to implement the National Framework for Malaria Elimination, which includes development of healthcare infrastructure in rural areas, as well as improving basic sanitation and sewage infrastructure in urban areas.

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The Times of India, 12 December, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-needs-18-billion-to-win-battle-against-malaria/articleshow/55931353.cms


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