11-05-2021 | 14:56 PM
E-2025 initiative
• The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified 25 countries, including three from Africa, with the potential to eradicate malaria by 2025 under its ‘E-2025 Initiative’, ahead of World Malaria Day 2021.
• Three of the identified countries were from Africa namely Eswatini, Botswana and South Africa.
About E-2025 initiative
• In 2017, WHO launched the E-2020 initiative to support a group of countries to achieve zero indigenous cases of malaria by 2020.
• Some 21 countries across five regions were identified as having the potential to reach the milestone of eliminating malaria.
• The report ‘Zeroing in on malaria elimination’ brings out the progress made through the E-2020 initiative of WHO.
• Building on the successes of the E-2020, WHO has identified a new group of 25 countries that have the potential to stamp out malaria within a 5-year timeline.
• The E-2025 countries will receive technical and on-the-ground support by WHO and its partners.
