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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/135
17 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 12
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/49/726)]
49/135.
Preventive action and intensification of
the struggle against malaria in developing
countries, particularly in Africa
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the agreed conclusions of the coordination segment of the
substantive session of 1993 of the Economic and Social Council on the
coordination of the policies and activities of the specialized agencies and
other bodies of the United Nations system in the fields of preventive action
and intensification of the struggle against malaria and diarrhoeal diseases,
in particular cholera, 1/
Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1994/34 of 29 July
1994, including preventive action and intensification of the struggle against
malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa,
Acknowledging the importance for endemically affected countries of
having a modern strategy to control this most deadly of all tropical diseases,
which annually causes more than one million deaths world wide and nine hundred
thousand deaths in Africa,
Deeply concerned by the development of more than three hundred million
new cases of malaria annually and by the emergence of a new type of drugresistant malaria,
1/
Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session,
Supplement No. 3 (A/48/3/Rev.1), chap. III, sect. B.
95-76837
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