World Health Organization officials urged India to concentrate more on the precautionary aspects of malaria than discovering the treatment of the disease.

The WHO officials stated India needs to eradicate the micro killer by following up effectual means of preventing malaria.

Until now, the fight against the mosquito threat is completely centered on disease treatment.

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 battling to put control over mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria regardless of major US fund allocation of $97,600 for malaria control and Kala Azar plans 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 belief that the unsuitable malaria treatment plan of the Indian government is one of the causes that the malaria threat is still uncontrolled in the country.

Now, luckily the majority of agencies working with the anti-malaria task are moving towards developing better defensive measures to end the spread of both malarial vector and parasites.

The Union ministry of health and family welfare has also joined hands with WHO to speed up the drive to control the menace.

Dr. Jai P Narain, director, Communicable Diseases and Surveillance department of WHO stated, “It must, however, adopt an integrated approach to come out a winner against this vector-borne disease.”

“An integrated approach acquires significance in the current scenario because the global warming-triggered climate change is not only adversely affecting human populations in myriad ways but is also giving rise to newer drug-resistant strains of plasmodium, the malarial parasite,” Dr. Narain added.

What increases the problem is the growth of mosquitoes now, in regions that were previously devoid of the vector.

Geographical malaria is increasing day-by-day. Regions like Kullu and Manali that had no reports of the disease previously are now coming up on the malaria map.