Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate
malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2030
A/RES/73/337
Welcoming the leadership and commitment of the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria
Alliance to eliminate malaria in the Asia-Pacific region by 2030, and encouraging the
members of the Alliance to continue to provide political leadership at the highest level
in the fight against malaria in the region,
Recalling the launch in 2017 of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and
Prevention to establish early warning and response surveillance systems, respond to
emergencies, build capacity and provide technical expertise to address health
emergencies in a timely and effective manner,
Reaffirming the Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016–2030 of the World
Health Organization, adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2015, 6 and the
Action and Investment to Defeat Malaria 2016–2030 plan of the RBM Partnership to
End Malaria, launched at the third International Conference on Financing for
Development, held in Addis Ababa from 13 to 16 July 2015, which together provide
the framework for achieving a reduction in global malaria incidence and mortality
rates by at least 90 per cent by 2030, in line with the 2030 Agenda,
Reaffirming also the World Health Organization framework for action for an
emergency response to artemisinin resistance in the Greater Mekong subregion of
South-East Asia, launched in April 2013,
Reaffirming further the Declaration of Alma-Ata, adopted at the International
Conference on Primary Health Care, held in Alma-Ata from 6 to 12 September 1978,
and its central role in launching the vision of the World Health Organization on health
for all,
Recalling the linkages among efforts being made to reach the targets set at the
Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of
African Unity, held in Abuja on 24 and 25 April 2000, as necessary and important for
the attainment of the “Roll Back Malaria” goal 8 and the targets of the Millennium
Development Goals by 2010 and 2015, respectively, and welcoming in this regard the
commitment of Member States to respond to the specific needs of Africa,
Acknowledging the remarkable progress seen in global malaria control between
2000 and 2015, during which period mortality decreased in South-East Asia by 44 per
cent, in Africa by 37 per cent and in the Americas by 27 per cent, but noting with
concern the trend of stalling mortality rates in some countries and that the global
malaria community needs to increase its focus on supporting countries where malaria
elimination will be hardest,
Recognizing that continued scale-up of integrated community case management
of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea in children under 5 years of age in the highest
burden countries, and a strengthening of integrated delivery systems for malaria
prevention tools, would be a cost-effective solution to help in bridging systems gaps
until health systems are further strengthened, 9 while also helping to reach populations
at highest risk of malaria,
Recalling that the target for malaria reduction under Millennium Development
Goal 6 had been achieved, with the incidence rate decreasing by 18 per cent globally,
from 76 to 63 cases per 1,000 population at risk, between 2010 and 2016,
Recognizing the important gains in reversing the malaria burden in Africa,
including a 42 per cent decline in malaria case incidence and a 66 per cent decline in
malaria death rates between 2000 and 2015, 10
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See A/55/240/Add.1, annex.
See A/71/881, para. 39.
See World Health Organization, World Malaria Report 2016.
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