National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP) of Afghanistan: 2023 – 2026

The 2023-2026 National Strategic Plan to Control Malaria in Afghanistan has been developed with the goal to ensure that Afghanistan is on track to eliminate malaria by 2025, contributing towards the country’s development and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Vision: Afghanistan is free from malaria

Mission: The MVDP of the MoPH of Afghanistan aims to reduce the burden of malaria and achieve malaria elimination by ensuring equitable and universal access to effective curative and preventive services to everyone at risk of malaria in close coordination with the efforts of all communities, national and international non-government organizations, private sector stakeholders, United Nations agencies and financial partners specially the Global Fund. Achieving the vision of “Afghanistan is free from malaria” will contribute significantly to poverty alleviation as malaria is most prevalent in the poorest segment of the population.

Goal: To ensure that Afghanistan is on track to reduce the malaria burden by 95% by 2030 and eliminate malaria by 2035 – contributing towards country development and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Specific Objectives:

• To reduce the number of category 1 and cat 2 districts by at least 50% in 2026. It means, as a result, that a total of 42 districts are expected to be classified in cat 1 and 2 in 2026. It equally means as a result that the malaria burden in those 84 districts will be reduced by approx. 50% in 2026 against baseline data from 2019 to 2021
• To interrupt indigenous transmission of malaria by 2026 in 20% of the 237 districts1 categorized in cat 3. It means interrupting local transmission in at least 47 cat 3 districts by 2026
• To prevent the re-establishment of local malaria transmission in cat 4 districts and communities where the disease has been eliminated during the last 3-year. It means keeping the 77 districts classified cat 4 free of local malaria transmission by 2026