States with high malaria burden dip from 10 in 2015 to 2 in 2023: Government | India News


NEW DELHI: The number of states/UTs with high malaria burden in India has reduced from 10 in 2015 to two in 2023, latest data shared by the health ministry shows. A state/UT is considered to have ‘high burden’, also known as category 3, if it has more than one case of malaria per 1,000 population under surveillance.
According to the Ministry of Health, from 2015 to 2023, numerous states have moved from the highest burden category to the significantly lower or zero burden category.
In 2015, the ministry said, 10 states and UTs were classified as high burden (Category 3), of these, in 2023 only two states (Mizoram and Tripura) will remain in Category 3, while four states like Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Meghalaya, have moved to category 2.
A state/UT is considered to belong to ‘category 2’ if it has less than 1 case of malaria per 1000 population under surveillance, but some districts have a higher prevalence of the disease. The latest data shows that four states namely Andaman and Nicobar Islands, MP, Arunachal and Dadra and Nagar Haveli have moved to Category 1, when a state has less than 1 case in all districts.





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