Urban Malaria, Major Public Health Problem : It's Tested, Certain, and Clear Solution.

Background: India accounts for the highest number of malaria cases outside of Africa. Eighty per cent of India's population lives in malaria-risk areas, with cases increasing in urban areas. Mumbai, India, one of the most populous cities in the world, has experienced such an increase. To be successful, many malaria control efforts require community participation, which in turn depends on individuals' knowledge and awareness of the disease. Author has given malaria prevention strategies that he executed as Municipal corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), Assistant medical ofcer. Author has worked as Assistant medical ofcer for many years with MCGM and he has actually p Methodology: layed role in malaria preventing practices at ground level in Mumbai. So, strategies and methods mentioned by author to control malaria can be practically very helpful to reduce malaria disease burden in society. There were 80000 cases and 200 malaria deaths in Mumbai from April 2010 to March 2011. With massive campaign by MCGM against malaria, in 2014 malaria cases reduced to 20,000 and deaths to 20. So strategies followed by MCGM can be applied to other municipal corporations and other parts of India to reduces malaria cases and deaths. : If methods and strategies applied by MCGM , to Result reduces malaria in Mumbai, are applied to other parts of country, same massive reduction in malaria disease burden in country can be achieved. The National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) in India aims to eliminate malaria nationally by 2030. Elimination of malaria means zero indigenous malaria cases throughout the entire country. This can be achieved with help of strategies mentioned here by author.