National Health Goals

• Reduction of Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) to 32 per 1000 live births by 2017
• Reduction of Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) to 123 per 100,000 live births by 2017
• Reduction of Total Fertility Rate (TFR) to 2.1 by 2017
• Prevention and reduction of under-nutrition in children under 3 years to half of NFHS-3 (2005-2006) levels 27 per cent by 2017
• Prevention and reduction of anemia among women aged 15-49 years to 28 percent by end of 2017
• Raising child sex ratio in the 0-6 years age group from 914 to 950
• Prevention and reduction of burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases (including mental illness) and injuries
• Reduction of poor household’s out-of-pocket expenditure to 1.87 percent of GDP by the end of 2017
• Reduce Tuberculosis annual incidence and mortality by half by the end of 2017
• Reduce Leprosy prevalence to <1/10,000 population and incidence to zero in all districts by the end of 2017
• Annual malaria incidence of <1/1,000 by the end of 2017
• Microfilaria prevalence <1 percent in all districts by the end of 2017
• Case fatality rate of Dengue <1 percent by the end of 2017
• Containment of Chikungunya outbreaks by the end of 2017
• Reduction in Japanese Encephalitis mortality by 30 percent by the end of 2017
• Elimination of Kala-azar by 2015, that is <1 case per 10,000 population in all blocks
• Reduce new infections of HIV/AIDS to zero and provide comprehensive care, support and treatment services to all who require it