Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate
malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2030
A/RES/72/309
and the Action and Investment to Defeat Malaria 2016–2030 plan of the Roll Back
Malaria Partnership, launched at the third International Conference on Financing for
Development, held in Addis Ababa from 13 to 16 July 2015, which together provide
the framework for achieving a reduction in global malaria incidence and mortality
rates by at least 90 per cent by 2030, in line with the 2030 Agenda,
Taking note also of the World Health Organization framework for action for an
emergency response to artemisinin resistance in the Greater Mekong subregion of
South-East Asia, launched in April 2013,
Reaffirming the Declaration of Alma-Ata, adopted at the International
Conference on Primary Health Care, held in Alma-Ata from 6 to 12 September 1978,
and its central role in launching the vision of the World Health Organization on health
for all,
Recognizing the linkages among efforts being made to reach the targets set at
the Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of
African Unity, held in Abuja on 24 and 25 April 2000, as necessary and important for
the attainment of the “Roll Back Malaria” goal 8 and the targets of the Millennium
Development Goals by 2010 and 2015, respectively, and welcoming in this regard the
commitment of Member States to respond to the specific needs of Africa,
Acknowledging the remarkable progress seen in global malaria control between
2000 and 2015, during which period mortality decreased in South-East Asia by
44 per cent, in Africa by 37 per cent and in the Americas by 27 per cent, but noting
with concern the trend of stalling mortality rates in some countries and that the global
malaria community needs to increase its focus on supporting countries whe re malaria
elimination will be hardest,
Recognizing that continued scale-up of integrated community case management
of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea in children under 5 years of age in the highest
burden countries, and a strengthening of integrated delivery systems for malaria
prevention tools, would be a cost-effective solution to help in bridging systems gaps
until health systems are further strengthened, 9 while also helping to reach populations
at highest risk of malaria,
Recalling that the target for malaria reduction under Millennium Development
Goal 6 had been achieved, with the incidence rate decreasing by 18 per cent globally,
from 76 to 63 cases per 1,000 population at risk, between 2010 and 2016,
Recognizing the important gains in reversing the malaria burden in Africa,
including a 42 per cent decline in malaria case incidence and a 66 per cent decline in
malaria death rates between 2000 and 2015, 10
Acknowledging the progress made in parts of Africa in reversing the high burden
of malaria through political engagement and sustainable national malaria control
programmes, as well as the success achieved in respect of the 2015 goals concerning
malaria control set by the World Health Assembly, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership
and the Abuja Declaration on Roll Back Malaria in Africa, 8
Acknowledging also the progress made in Latin America in reducing the
incidence of malaria, with 15 out of 21 countries reducing the incidence by 75 per cent
by 2015, and in significantly decreasing the number of malaria deaths by 79 per cent
since 2000, owing to the commitment of countries to improving access to medicines
and health services and to sustained efforts in prevention programmes,
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See A/55/240/Add.1, annex.
See A/71/881, para. 39.
See World Health Organization, World Malaria Report 2016.
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