A/RES/67/299
United Nations
Distr.: General
1 October 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 13
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 September 2013
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/67/L.80 and Add.1)]
67/299. 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 66/289 of 10 September 2012 and all previous
resolutions concerning the struggle against malaria in developing countries,
particularly in Africa,
Recalling World Health Assembly resolution 60.18 of 23 May 2007, 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
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,
Taking note of all declarations and decisions on health issues, in particular
those related to malaria, adopted by the Organization of African Unity and the
African Union, including the Abuja Declaration on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Other Related Infectious Diseases, containing the pledge to allocate at least
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1
Resolution 55/284.
Resolution 65/1.
3
See World Health Organization, document WHASS1/2006-WHA60/2007/REC/1.
4
See World Health Organization, document WHA61/2008/REC/1.
2
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