A/RES/69/325
United Nations
Distr.: General
6 October 2015
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 12
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 11 September 2015
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/69/L.91 and Add.1)]
69/325. Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control
and eliminate malaria in developing countries,
particularly in Africa, by 2015 and beyond
The General Assembly,
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,1
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 the malaria-related goals and commitments in the outcome
document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the
Millennium Development Goals, 2
Recalling further its resolution 68/308 of 10 September 2014 and all previous
resolutions concerning the struggle against malaria in developing countries,
particularly in Africa,
Recalling 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,3 resolution 61.18 of 24 May 2008 on monitoring the
achievement of health-related Millennium Development Goals4 and resolution 68.2 of
22 May 2015 on the global technical strategy and targets for malaria 2016–2030,
Recalling also the commitment made by African leaders to end the epidemic of
malaria by ensuring universal and equitable access to quality health care and by
improving health systems and health financing, contained in the African Common
Position on the post-2015 development agenda,
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1
Resolution 55/284.
Resolution 65/1.
3
See World Health Organization, documents WHASS1/2006-WHA60/2007/REC/1 and WHA64/2011/REC/1.
4
See World Health Organization, document WHA61/2008/REC/1.
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