Roll Back Malaria Parternship (Geneva)
23 December 2008
press release
New York — The Roll Back Malaria Partnership welcomes the United Nations General Assembly Resolution A63/L.62 "2001-2010: a decade to roll back malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa" adopted by consensus on Monday December 22.
"In adopting this resolution, Member States, including donors and endemic countries, have reaffirmed their commitment to combat malaria and achieve preset targets by 2010 and 2015. Malaria kills about a million people a year, but most of those deaths could be avoided with the right mix of prevention and treatment," said Hervé Verhoosel, External Relations Manager for the Roll Back Malaria Partnership.
The resolution calls on international donors to step up funding for anti-malaria programmes and on malaria-affected countries to strengthen their own national policies. It welcomes the Global Malaria Action Plan, developed by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, which for the first time provides a comprehensive plan for combating malaria in the short, medium and long term with specific targets and calls the international community to support increased interventions in line with that plan.
The resolution requests the UN Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director-General of the World Health Organization, to submit next year an evaluation report on progress towards the 2010 targets.
"We have two years left to archive those targets. Financial crisis or not, we need to increase available resources and work on the implementation of the Global Malaria Action Plan in every endemic country. If we don’t, an African child will continue to die of malaria every 30 seconds," said Hervé Verhoosel of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership.
The Roll Back Malaria Partnership, the leading global public-private partnership dedicated to combating malaria, was created ten years ago by WHO, UNDP, UNICEF and the World Bank.
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I would be very happy if the roll back malaria goals will be met because its a big problem in my country(Nigeria).I am a medical student and i see children with severe malaria and complications of malaria.This battle is for everyone if we are to eradicate this disease.