A/RES/70/300
United Nations
Distr.: General
15 September 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 14
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 September 2016
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/70/L.62 and Add.1)]
70/300. Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control
and eliminate malaria in developing countries,
particularly in Africa, by 2030
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 including the
resolve of Member States to eliminate malaria by 2030, and the Addis Ab aba
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, 2
Recalling that the period 2001–2010 was proclaimed by the General Assembly
as the Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa, 3
and that combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases is included
in the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium
Development Goals,
Recalling also its resolution 69/325 of 11 September 2015 and all previous
resolutions concerning the struggle against malaria in developing countries,
particularly in Africa,
Recalling further World Health Assembly resolutions 60.18 of 23 May 2007
and 64.17 of 24 May 2011, urging a broad range of national and international
actions to scale up malaria control programmes, 4 resolution 61.18 of 24 May 2008
on monitoring the achievement of health-related Millennium Development Goals 5
and resolution 68.2 of 22 May 2015 on the global technical strategy and targets for
malaria 2016–2030, 6
Taking note of the high-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance, to be held at
United Nations Headquarters in New York on 21 September 2016,
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1
Resolution 70/1.
Resolution 69/313, annex.
3
Resolution 55/284.
4
See World Health Organization, documents WHASS1/2006-WHA60/2007/REC/1 and WHA64/2011/REC/1.
5
See World Health Organization, document WHA61/2008/REC/1.
6
See World Health Organization, document WHA68/2015/REC/1.
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