Federal Ministry of Health Announces Strategic Vision to Combat Malaria

Khartoum – Sudanhorizon

The Federal Ministry of Health Sudan announced on Saturday a new strategic vision for combating Malaria, affirming its commitment to ensuring the disease no longer represents a major public health problem and to moving steadily toward its elimination.

In a press statement marking World Malaria Day, the ministry explained that the strategy is based on ensuring equitable and comprehensive access to vector control services, expanding vaccination coverage, strengthening chemoprevention, improving accurate diagnosis, and ensuring the availability of treatment. It also emphasizes building a strong surveillance system to support timely decision-making and intensifying communication efforts to promote behavior change.

The statement noted that implementation of the strategy will be carried out through national leadership and cross-sector coordination, with a commitment to principles of equity, accountability, and flexibility—especially in fragile settings—while promoting innovation and operational research.

As part of the Prime Minister’s initiative to eliminate malaria, the vision aims to eliminate preventable deaths and reduce infection rates by 50 percent by 2030, with special priority given to pregnant women and children under five.

The strategy also includes revitalizing indoor residual spraying in irrigated agricultural schemes, treating aquatic breeding sites in urban areas, ensuring the availability of medicines and diagnostic tests in all health facilities, strengthening community health systems, increasing domestic funding, and expanding vaccination coverage. It stressed that combating malaria requires the collective efforts of all sectors and the adoption of a partnership-based approach to address ongoing challenges.

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