By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, June 4: A regional review meeting on Intensive Malaria Elimination Project (IMEP)-II of 10 GFATM (Global Fund AIDS, TB & Malaria)-supported states ended here recently.
According to a statement, the meeting was held at MATI, Mawdiangdiang, and attended by Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
“Dr. Rinku Sharma, Joint Director, NCVBDC, New Delhi, and her team, Dr. L Somorendra Singh, Senior Regional Director, ROHFW Shillong, GoI and his team, and other four senior regional directors from Imphal, Kolkata, Patna and Bhubaneshwar, all state programme officers on malaria and their team of 10 GFATM-supported states participated in the meeting,” statement said.
The meeting was attended by Health Minister James Sangma as the chief guest along with officials from the state government.
James, during the programme, assured political commitment in war against malaria and stressed on advocacy of Information Education Communication (IEC) and Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) in local dialects.
Challenges, gaps and the way forward on malaria elimination were also deliberated over during the meeting.
