The Indian Council of Medical Research has launched the 'Malaria Elimination Research Alliance (MERA) India’ in order to prioritise, plan and scale up research to eliminate malaria from India by the year:

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The Indian Council of Medical Research has launched the 'Malaria Elimination Research Alliance (MERA) India’ in order to prioritise, plan and scale up research to eliminate malaria from India by the year 2030.
 It aims to harness and reinforce research in coordinated and combinatorial ways in order to achieve a tangible impact on malaria elimination.
 The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on April 25, 2019, launched the 'Malaria Elimination Research Alliance (MERA) India'.
 MERA-India was launched by the ICMR Director General, Dr Balram Bhargava, on the eve of ‘World Malaria Day’ in 2019.
 Malaria is considered to be one of the highly prevalent infectious diseases and the most common cause of death after tuberculosis.
 Malaria is caused by protozoan parasite (Plasmodium species) and is transmitted from one human to another by the bite of infected Anopheles mosquitoes.
 The malaria parasite has a complex multistaged life cycle in two hosts, vertebrae hosts and female Anopheles vector mosquito.