A/RES/68/308 United Nations Distr.: General 19 September 2014 General Assembly Sixty-eighth session Agenda item 13 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 September 2014 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/68/L.60 and Add.1)] 68/308. Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2015 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 67/299 of 16 September 2013 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 and resolution 61.18 of 24 May 2008 on monitoring the achievement of health-related Millennium Development Goals,4 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, Bearing in mind the relevant resolutions of the Economic and Social Council relating to the struggle against malaria and diarrhoeal diseases, in particular resolution 1998/36 of 30 July 1998, _______________ 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. 2 14-60784 (E) *1460784* Please recycle

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