A/RES/71/325
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 September 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 12
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 11 September 2017
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.89 and Add.1)]
71/325. 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 Ababa 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 70/300 of 9 September 2016 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
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1
Resolution 70/1.
Resolution 69/313, annex.
3
See 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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