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,
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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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