National Health Programs

Earnestly to improve (to promote) the health status of the people by improvement of sanitation,
living conditions, nutritional status and by control/eradication of diseases, both communicable
and noncommunicable, getting assistance from various international organizations such as WHO,
UNICEF, World Bank, and also from foreign agencies like SIDA, DANIDA, NORAD and
USAID in the form of various technical and material assistance.
The National Health Programs (NHPs) are of three kinds:
1. 100 percent centrally sponsored programs, but implementation is by the State Governments.
2. 50:50 centrally sponsored programs, i.e. the implementation is by the State Government
However 50 percent of the expenses are incurred by the Central Government and remaining 50
percent by the State Government.
3. Vertical programs: In this type both the implementation and incurring expenditure is by the
Central Government only.
Some of the NHPs have ceased, some got merged with others and some are recently introduced,
as follows:
The National Smallpox Eradication Program (NSEP)
The Applied Nutrition Program (ANP)
The National Cholera Control Program (NCCP), the National STD Control Program and the
National Trachoma Control Program, were merged respectively with those for diarrheal diseases,
AIDS and blindness and renamed as National Diarrheal Diseases Control Program (NDDCP),
National AIDS control Program (NAIDS CP) and National Program for the Control of Blindness
(NPCB) respectively.
RELATED TO COMMUNICABLE
DISEASES
1. National Anti-malaria Program (NAMP) (1999)
2. National Filaria Control Program (1955)
3. National Kala-azar Control Program (1991)
4. National Japanese Encephalitis Control Program (200304)
5. National Dengue Fever/Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Control Program (200304)
6. National Leprosy Eradication Program (1983)
7. National Guinea-worm Eradication Program (1983)
8. National Polio Eradication Program (1995)
9. Universal Immunization Program (1985)
10. Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (1993)
11. National Acute Respiratory Infections Control Program
12. National Diarrheal Disease Control Program
13. National AIDS Control Program.
RELATED TO NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES
1. National Program for the Control of Blindness
2. National Cancer Control Program (1975)
3. National Program for Control of Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke.
4. National Mental Health Program (1982)
5. National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Program (1962).
6. National Program for Control and Treatment of Occupational Diseases.
7. National Program for the prevention and Control of Deafness.
RELATED TO NUTRITION
1. National Vitamin A Prophylaxis Program (1970)
2. National Nutritional Anemia Prophylaxis Program (1970)
3. National Special Nutrition Program (1970)
4. National Balwadi Nutrition Program
5. Mid-Day School Meal Program (1962)
6. Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (1975)