A/RES/59/256
Further recognizing that malaria-related ill health and deaths throughout the world
can be eliminated with political commitment and commensurate resources if the public is
educated and sensitized about malaria and appropriate health services are made available,
particularly in countries where the disease is endemic,
Emphasizing the importance of implementing the Millennium Declaration, and
welcoming in this connection the commitment of Member States to respond to the specific
needs of Africa,
Commending the efforts of the World Health Organization, the United Nations
Children’s Fund and other partners to fight malaria over the years, including the launching
of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership in 1998,
1.
Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the
World Health Organization, 5 and calls for support for the recommendations contained
therein;
2.
Calls upon the international community to continue to support the “Roll Back
Malaria” partner organizations, including the World Health Organization and the United
Nations Children’s Fund, as vital complementary sources of support for the efforts of
malaria-endemic countries to combat the disease;
3.
Appeals to the international community to ensure increased support for
bilateral and multilateral assistance to combat malaria, including support for the Global
Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in order to assist in the development of
sound national plans to control malaria in malaria-endemic countries and their
implementation in a sustained and equitable way that, inter alia, contributes to health
system development;
4.
Urges malaria-endemic countries to increase domestic resource allocation to
malaria control;
5.
Encourages all African countries that have not yet done so to implement the
recommendations of the Abuja Summit1 to reduce or waive taxes and tariffs for nets and
other products needed for malaria control, both to reduce the price of nets to consumers
and to stimulate free trade in insecticide-treated nets;
6.
Calls upon malaria-endemic countries, in particular those in sub-Saharan
Africa, to establish and strengthen policies and programmes to ensure a rapid scaleup in the coverage of insecticide-treated nets to at least 60 per cent of those at risk,
wherever the use of such nets is the vector-control method of choice, by applying
expeditious approaches, including targeted free or highly subsidized distribution to
vulnerable groups;
7.
Expresses its concern about the increase in resistant strains of malaria in
several regions of the world;
8.
Encourages all Member States experiencing resistance to conventional
monotherapies to replace them with combination therapies, as recommended by the World
Health Organization, in a timely manner;
9.
Recognizes the importance of the development of effective vaccines and new
medicines to prevent and treat malaria and the need for further and accelerated research,
including through effective global partnerships such as the various malaria vaccine
initiatives and the Medicines for Malaria Venture, where necessary stimulated by new
incentives to secure their development;
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See A/59/261.