Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate
malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2030
A/RES/72/309
42. Requests the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s
Fund and donor agencies to provide support to those countries that still use DDT for
indoor residual spraying so as to ensure that it is implemented in accordance with
international rules, standards and guidelines, and to provide all possible support to
malaria-endemic countries to manage the intervention effectively and prevent all
contamination, in particular, of agricultural products with DDT and other insecticides
used for indoor residual spraying;
43. Recognizes the importance of a multisectoral strategy to advance global
control efforts, invites malaria-endemic countries to consider adopting and
implementing the Multisectoral Action Framework for Malaria, developed by the Roll
Back Malaria Partnership and the United Nations Development Programme, and
encourages regional and intersectoral collaboration, both public and private, at all
levels, especially in education, health, agriculture, economic development and the
environment, to advance malaria control objectives;
44. Also recognizes the need to strengthen malaria surveillance and data
quality in all endemic regions, which is important to the follow -up and review of the
progress in implementing target 3.3 pertaining to Sustainable Development Goal 3
and a key pillar of the Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016–2030, to enable
Member States to direct financial resources to populations most in need and t o
respond effectively to disease outbreaks, particularly in the face of growing resistance
to treatment and preventive measures;
45. Calls upon Member States and the international community to strengthen
mechanisms for country-based coordination of technical assistance to achieve
alignment of the best approaches to implement World Health Organization technical
guidance and to mobilize support for the sharing and analysis of best practices to
address urgent programmatic challenges, to improve monitoring an d evaluation and
to conduct regular financial planning and gap analysis;
46. Encourages sharing, across regions, of knowledge, experience and lessons
learned with regard to the control and elimination of malaria, particularly between
the Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America regions;
47. Calls upon the international community to support the strengthening of
health systems, national pesticide and/or pharmaceutical policies and national drug
and pesticide regulatory authorities, to monitor and fight against the trade in
substandard and falsified medical products, such as substandard antimalarial
medicines, pesticides and/or nets, and prevent their distribution and use, and t o
support coordinated efforts, inter alia, by providing technical assistance for
compliance with existing commitments and international regulations on the use of
pesticides and to improve surveillance, monitoring and evaluation systems and their
alignment with national plans and systems so as to better track and report changes in
coverage, the need for scaling up recommended interventions and the subsequent
reductions in the burden of malaria;
48. Encourages Member States, the international community and all relevant
actors, including the private sector, to promote the coordinated implementation and
enhance the quality of malaria-related activities, in accordance with national policies
and operational plans that are consistent with the technical recommenda tions of the
World Health Organization and recent efforts and initiatives, including, where
appropriate, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, the Accra Agenda for Action,
adopted at the Third High-level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, held in Accra from 2 to
4 September 2008, 19 and the Busan Partnership for Effective Development
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