World Malaria Day is observed on 25th April with a
theme “End Malaria for Good” and the World Health Assembly has set a Global
Technical strategy to eliminate Malaria totally from this planet by 2030,
reducing the number of cases by 90% with a special emphasis ending Malaria
deaths.
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| End Malaria for Good |
Despite the WHO report of
World Malaria Report 2015 notifies a drastic reduction in Malaria cases across
the globe, 3-2 million people are still in the risk of getting affected by it
and Sub-Saharan Africa is worst affected in this case. 22% of the Indian
population lives transmission area and only 11% of the Indian population free
from Malaria.
Malaria can be preventable and creating awareness on what causes
Malaria and the measures that need to be taken goes a long way in reducing the
incidents. This threatening disease is caused by parasites and mosquitoes,
particularly female mosquitoes are the carriers of Malaria parasites. So keep
your surroundings clean and take measures to stop the mosquito breeding.
Governments must strengthen local governments with enough funds for sanitation
and the government primary healthcare centers must be equipped with the basic
diagnostic and medical facilities to stop it early.
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