A/RES/62/180
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Appeals to the international community to work in a spirit of cooperation
towards effective, increased, harmonized and sustained bilateral and multilateral
assistance to combat malaria, including support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria, in order to assist States, in particular malaria-endemic
countries, to implement sound national plans, in particular health plans and
sanitation plans, including malaria control strategies and integrated management of
childhood illnesses, in a sustained and equitable way that, inter alia, contributes to
health system development;
Welcomes the contribution to the mobilization of additional and
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predictable resources for development by voluntary innovative financing initiatives
taken by groups of Member States, and in this regard notes the International Drug
Purchase Facility, UNITAID, the International Finance Facility for Immunization
and the advance market commitment initiatives;
Urges malaria-endemic countries to work towards financial
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sustainability, to increase, to the extent possible, domestic resource allocation to
malaria control and to create favourable conditions for working with the private
sector in order to improve access to good-quality malaria services;
Calls upon Member States, in particular malaria-endemic countries, to
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establish and/or strengthen national policies and operational plans, aspiring to
ensure that at least 80 per cent of those at risk of or suffering from malaria may
benefit from major preventive and curative interventions by 2010, in accordance
with the technical recommendations of the World Health Organization, so as to
ensure a reduction in the burden of malaria by at least 50 per cent by 2010 and
75 per cent by 2015;
Urges Member States to assess and respond to the needs for integrated
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human resources at all levels of the health system, in order to achieve the targets of
the Abuja Declaration on Roll Back Malaria in Africa 8 and the internationally
agreed development goals of the United Nations Millennium Declaration,2 to take
actions, as appropriate, to effectively govern the recruitment, training and retention
of skilled health personnel, and to give particular focus to the availability of skilled
personnel at all levels to meet technical and operational needs as increased funding
for malaria control programmes becomes available;
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10. Calls upon the international community, inter alia, by helping to meet the
financial needs of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and
through country-led initiatives with adequate international support, to intensify
access to affordable, safe and effective antimalarial combination treatments,
intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancies, long-lasting insecticide-treated
mosquito nets, including through the free distribution of such nets where
appropriate, and insecticides for indoor residual spraying for malaria control, taking
into account relevant international rules, standards and guidelines;
11. Requests relevant international organizations, in particular the World
Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, to assist efforts of
national Governments to establish universal protection of young children and
pregnant women in malaria-endemic countries, particularly in Africa, with longlasting insecticide-treated nets as rapidly as possible, with due regard to ensuring
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