A map, which pin-points the location of India's remote villages worst affected by malaria, will now spearhead the country's war against the vector-borne disease. After almost three months of extensive research, using the state-ofthe-art geographic information system, India's National Vector-Borne Disease Control Programme is now armed with the country's first malaria map, that helps identify populations most at risk besides telling public health experts the areas, however remote, that need immediate and aggressive control measures. The map first identified India's 60 most malaria-endemic districts that report over 50% of the country's malaria cases. Most of them are in north-eastern states, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. Villages in these districts were then divided into low, medium, high and very high prevalence categories, using a simple mathematical model. Villages recording Annual Parasite Incidence (API