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education, health, agriculture, economic development and the environment, to
advance malaria control objectives;
27. Calls upon the international community to support increased
interventions, in line with the recommendations of the World Health Organization
and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, in order to ensure their rapid, efficient and
effective implementation, to strengthen health systems and national pharmaceutical
policies, to monitor and fight against the trade in counterfeit antimalarial medicines
and prevent the distribution and use of them, and to support coordinated efforts,
inter alia, by providing technical assistance to improve surveillance, monitoring and
evaluation systems and their alignment with national plans and systems so as to
better track and report changes in coverage, the need for scaling up recommended
interventions and the subsequent reductions in the burden of malaria;
28. Urges Member States, the international community and all relevant
actors, including the private sector, to promote the coordinated implementation and
enhance the quality of malaria-related activities, including via the Roll Back
Malaria Partnership, in accordance with national policies and operational plans that
are consistent with the technical recommendations of the World Health Organization
and recent efforts and initiatives, including the Paris Declaration on Aid
Effectiveness;
29. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
sixty-third session on the implementation of the present resolution under the agenda
item entitled “2001–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries,
Particularly in Africa”.
78th plenary meeting
19 December 2007
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