Last Thursday, April 25, 2013, was celebrated world-wide as World Malaria Day, first declared in 2007 by the 60th Session of the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
April 25 had earlier been celebrated as Africa Malaria Day from 2001, following the Abuja Declaration adopted by the leaders of the 44 malaria-endemic African countries, at the African Summit on Malaria in 2000.
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