A/RES/72/309
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 September 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 13
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 10 September 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/72/L.68 and A/72/L.68/Add.1)]
72/309.
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 Sustainable
Development Goals,
Recalling also its resolution 71/325 of 11 September 2017 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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Resolution 70/1.
Resolution 69/313, annex.
See resolution 55/284.
See World Health Organization, documents WHASS1/2006-WHA60/2007/REC/1 and
WHA64/2011/REC/1.
See World Health Organization, document WHA61/2008/REC/1.
See World Health Organization, document WHA68/2015/REC/1.
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