A/RES/58/237
Also recognizing the urgent need for scaling up national malaria control
programmes if African countries are to meet the intermediate target set by the Abuja
Summit for the five-year period of 2000–2005,
Further recognizing that malaria-related ill health and deaths throughout the
world can be eliminated with political commitment and commensurate resources if
the public is educated and sensitized about malaria and appropriate health services
are made available, particularly in countries where the disease is endemic,
Emphasizing the importance of implementing the Millennium Declaration, and
welcoming in this connection the commitment of Member States to respond to the
specific needs of Africa,
Commending the efforts of the World Health Organization and the United
Nations Children’s Fund and other partners to fight malaria over the years, including
the launching of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership in 1998,
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General, 5 and calls for support
1.
for the recommendations contained therein;
2.
Calls upon the international community to continue to support the “Roll
Back Malaria” partner organizations, including the World Health Organization and
the United Nations Children’s Fund, as vital complementary sources of support for
the efforts of malaria-endemic countries to combat the disease;
Appeals to the international community to ensure that the Global Fund to
3.
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria receives increased funding to support sound
national plans to control malaria in endemic countries to be implemented in a
sustained and equitable way that contributes to health system development;
Urges malaria-endemic
4.
allocation to malaria control;
countries
to
increase
domestic
resource
5.
Encourages all African countries that have not yet done so to implement
the recommendations of the Abuja Summit to reduce or waive taxes and tariffs for
nets and other products needed for malaria control, both to reduce the price of nets
to consumers and to stimulate free trade in insecticide-treated nets;
Calls upon the international community to support ways of stimulating
6.
the development of manufacturing capacity of insecticide-treated nets in Africa and,
in this connection, to encourage and facilitate the transfer of technology needed to
make insecticide-treated nets more effective and long-lasting;
Recognizes the importance of the development of effective vaccines and
7.
new medicines to prevent and treat malaria, and the need for further research,
including through effective global partnerships such as the various malaria vaccine
initiatives and the Medicines for Malaria Venture, in securing their development;
Reiterates the need for expanded public-private partnerships for malaria
8.
control and prevention, and in this context urges petroleum companies operating in
Africa to consider providing polymer for the manufacture of mosquito nets at
reduced prices as a contribution to rolling back malaria in Africa;
Urges the pharmaceutical industry to take note of the increasing need for
9.
effective combination treatment for malaria, particularly in Africa, and to form
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