Gadchiroli district now has more than half of Maharashtra's malaria cases, which makes it a hard test of India's goal to eliminate the disease by 2030.

Forests and remote villages keep transmission going there long after other parts of the country brought it down, Frontline magazine reports.

Health workers travel long distances to reach patients, and the monsoon leaves standing water where mosquitoes breed. Late diagnosis is the main reason malaria deaths still happen.

India's National Framework for Malaria Elimination, launched in 2016, aims for zero indigenous cases across the country by 2030.

Maharashtra is running the Malaria Mukt Gadchiroli Abhiyan, with a task force chaired by the Chief Minister and several non-profit groups.

The Clinton Health Access Initiative's Indian arm will run a programme management unit for three years to coordinate partners and research institutes.

The Health Ministry has picked 33 high-burden districts in nine states and UTs. In 2025 they had 64% of India's malaria cases and 54% of deaths.

The national approach is "Test, Treat and Track": find cases fast, treat them fully and follow up so transmission stops.

About 160 districts have reported zero cases for three years, and India's malaria burden has fallen by roughly 80% since 2015.

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