MEDIA CLIPPINGS July 10th - 17th

Action & Investment to defeat Malaria 2016-2030 (AIM) – for a malaria-free

world

& Global Technical Strategy for Malaria

2016-2030 (GTS)

Background

The result of worldwide expert consultation with regions, countries and affected communities, Action & Investment to defeat Malaria 2016-2030 – for a malaria-free world was formally launched during the 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) in Addis Ababa at an official side event on Monday 13 July, entitled, Malaria Financing for a New Era: An Exceptional Case for Investment. The side event was co- hosted by the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the African Union, the African Leaders Malaria Alliance, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, the United Nation’s Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Financing the Health Related Millennium Development Goals and Malaria, and Malaria No More, and chaired by His Excellency Prime Minister, Mr. Hailemariam Dessalegn. It provided an opportunity to showcase the importance of the strategic framework outlined by AIM – and the WHO’s complementary Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030 – and highlight the importance of increased investments and innovative financing for continued progress toward ambitious malaria elimination targets.

Speaking at the official launch of the AIM, the United Nations Secretary- General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon noted: As we move toward a new set of global goals for sustainable development, we have an unprecedented opportunity to put an end to the global threat of malaria once and for all. And we have the strategic vision to do so, as outlined in WHO’s Global Technical Strategy for Malaria and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership’s Action and Investment to Defeat Malaria, both of which are presented here today. They provide a comprehensive framework to guide efforts to reduce malaria by 90 per cent by 2030.

In the lead-up to the launch in Addis, RBM and WHO held a press briefing at the Palais de Nations in Geneva to inform the media of the importance of the complementary GTS and AIM documents. This briefing – together with targeted media relations and distribution of a press release – helped to generate the interest of key international media outlets in the important days leading up to the FfD meeting.

This report serves to highlight key coverage of the AIM in the media.

PRESS RELEASE

RBM

Roll Back Malaria Partnership releases new strategies to guide global efforts toward malaria elimination by 2030

Date: Syndicated across: 10/07 PMI, USA Malaria No More, USA Country: All Africa.com, UK Switzerland UNIC Acra, Ghana Modern Ghana, Ghana Politz.org.za, South Africa Philippine Information Agency, Philippine

Comprehensive framework for investment & action will advance development and defeat killer disease

(10 July 2015; United Nations, Geneva) On 13 July, world leaders at the 3rd International Financing for Development (FfD) meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, will discuss the new World Health Assembly endorsed Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030 and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership’s Action and Investment to defeat Malaria 2016-2030 (AIM) - for a malaria-free world. Together, these documents provide technical guidance and a framework for action and investment to achieve the ambitious malaria elimination targets outlined in the forthcoming United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This new comprehensive vision will be formally launched during a special malaria financing event convened by H.E. Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

Progress in the fight against malaria since 2000 has resulted in a 58% reduction in malaria mortality - with more than 6.2 million malaria deaths averted between 2001 - 2015. However, malaria remains a major cause and consequence of poverty and inequity worldwide. It impedes economic development, undermines food security,stops children going to school, and absorbs the capacity of national systems to respond effectively to health security threats.

On the release of this comprehensive new vision, the United Nations Secretary-General, BAN-Ki-moon noted: “Reaching our 2030 global malaria goals will not only save millions of lives, it will reduce poverty and create healthier, more equitable societies. Ensuring the continued reduction and elimination of malaria will generate benefits for entire communities, businesses, agriculture, health systems and households.” The United Nations Secretary-General continued, “Transforming our understanding of the powerful return on investment of ending malaria deaths into dynamic and effective action on the ground will be essential to realizing the future we want, where all people enjoy the equality and dignity they deserve.”

The result of worldwide expert consultation with regions, countries and affected communities, the complementary Global Technical Strategy for Malaria and AIM documents share the 2016-2030 timeline of the UN SDGs and provide milestones to measure progress. Together, the documents lay out the technical strategies required to continue driving down the burden of malaria, while charting the investment and collective actions needed to reach the 2030 malaria goals of reducing global malaria case incidence and deaths by 90% - compared to 2015 - and eliminating the disease in an additional 35 countries.

“The new 2030 malaria goals – and the 2020 and 2025 milestones laid out in the WHO and RBM strategies – are ambitious but achievable,” said Dr. Pedro Alonso, Director of the WHO’s Global Malaria Programme. “We must accelerate progress toward malaria elimination to ensure that neither parasite resistance to drugs, mosquito resistance to insecticides, nor malaria resurgence unravels the tremendous gains to date. We can and must achieve even greater impact to protect the investment the global community has made.”

While completely preventable and treatable, WHO has estimated that there will be 214 million cases of malaria infection in 2015, claiming the lives of approximately 472,000 people,the majority of them African children under five years of age.Despite unprecedented progress to-date, more than half of the world’s population remainsat risk of malaria infection today. Adequate and predictable financing and innovations for new tools will be critical to scale-up interventions and reach the WHO/RBM targets of malaria elimination. In RBM’s AIM document, experts outline that over US $100 billion is needed to achieve 2030 target of reducing the malaria burden by 90%, with an additional US$ 10 billion needed to fund research and development of new tools, including new drugs and insecticides. To achieve the first milestone of reducing malaria incidence and mortality rates by 40%, annual malaria investments will need to rise to US$6.4 billion by 2020.

While total international and domestic funding peaked at US $2.7 billion in 2013, current declines in international development financing is impacting the world’s ability to maintain progress against malaria. Acceleration toward malaria elimination will require increased financing by the international donor community, as well as increased domestic financing by affected countries.

“Investing to achieve the new 2030 malaria goals will avert nearly 3 billion malaria cases and save over 10 million lives. If we are able to reach these targets, the world stands to generate US $4 trillion of additional economic output across the 2016-2030 timeframe,” said Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership. “Now, more than ever, we must re-focus our efforts and re-commit our budgets so we can continue saving lives and unlock economic potential in communities around the world.”

At a cost of US $5-8 per case averted, malaria has continually proven to be one of the most cost-effective investments in public health, with relatively low investments yielding high results even beyond the health sector, and experts estimate that the return will only continue growing as countries begin focusing on elimination targets. New analysis in AIM reveals that the global return on investment of achieving the 2030 malaria goals is 40:1, rising to an unprecedented 60:1 for sub-Saharan Africa. This reinforces the evidence that continued efforts to reduce the burden of malaria have the potential to stimulate transformative and inclusive growth.

Malaria reduction and elimination will be critical to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and will help advance development efforts across sectors by reducing school absenteeism, fighting poverty, increasing gender parity and improving maternal and child health. Lives saved from effective malaria interventions have been linked to a 20% reduction in all-cause child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa since 2000, while efforts to prevent malaria in pregnancy have averted nearly 95,000 newborn deaths between 2009 and 2012.These numbers represent an entire generation given the chance to live healthy lives and grow into strong, contributing members of society.

The full AIM document is available for download at: http://bit.ly/1G5NvnI

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Additional Quotes for Use:

United States President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI): “Despite tremendous progress and increased access to life-saving malaria control interventions, malaria continues to disproportionally effect society’s most vulnerable communities. We must make every effort to ensure our investments in malaria reach these marginalized populations so that no one is left behind as we drive down malaria transmission, reduce malaria deaths and move towards elimination country - by - country. ” – Rear Admiral Ziemer (USN ret), U. S. Global Malaria Coordinator, President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI).

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: “With leadership from the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, the world has made incredible progress against malaria in the past 15 years,” said David Brandling-Bennett, Senior Adviser to the Malaria Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “A strong global partnership across regions and sectors will be essential to achieving the 2030 malaria goals.”

MULTIMEDIA

English

UN Multimedia

Geneva / Malaria Global Efforts

Interview Dr. Nafo-Traouré

Duration: 3'14''

Date: 10/07

Country: Switzerland

The Roll Back Malaria Partnership released new strategies to guide efforts towards malaria elimination by 2030. In an interview in Geneva, its Executive Director Dr. Fatoumata Nafo- Traore said “we recommit and we are ensuring that Malaria is defeated, because we know it is possible, it is doable”

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UN Radio

US$100bn cost of beating malaria

Interview Dr. Nafo-Traouré

Duration: 3'07''

Date: 10/07

Country: USA

Malaria can be beaten in the next 15 years but it's going to take US$100 billion to do it, UN health partners said Friday. The Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM), which calculated the staggering sum, said the global approach to the deadly disease in 94 countries needs to change. That means that rather than being seen as a health problem, malaria should be viewed as an economic issue that costs the world economy billions every year in lost productivity, RBM's Dr Fatoumato Nafo Traore told Daniel Johnson.

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UN Radio

UN Calling Asia: focus on malaria, humanitarian aid and migration

Interview Dr. Nafo-Traouré

Duration: 1st 3 minutes

Date: 16/07

Country: USA

US $100bn cost of beating malaria

Malaria can be beaten in the next 15 years but it’s going to take US$100 billion to do it, UN health partners have said. South-East Asia is second to Africa in terms of malaria deaths. The Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM), which calculated the staggering sum, said the global approach needs to change. RBM’s Dr Fatoumato Nafo Traore told Daniel Johnson that malaria should be viewed as an economic issue that costs the world economy billions every year in lost productivity, rather than just a health problem.

Resilience of Nepalis praised by humanitarian chief

The resilience of the people of Nepal has been praised by the director of operations at the UN humanitarian office, OCHA. The country was struck

by two massive earthquakes in April and May which left over 8,000 people dead and destroyed thousands of buildings. The recovery effort is continuing. Operations director John Ging recently

visited the country to assess the current situation. Maoqi Li asked him what he saw.

Irregular migration in Asia: Prosecuting smugglers, protecting victims

Over the past year nearly 90,000 people, mostly from the Rohingya ethnic group in Myanmar and citizens from Bangladesh, have risked their lives crossing the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) convened a ministerial meeting this month on what's known as irregular migration. Among its recommendations was establishment of a task force and trust fund to assist people rescued at sea. Dianne Penn asked Vivian Tan, spokesperson with the UN Refugee Agency, (UNHCR), in Bangkok, Thailand, how irregular migration affects the region.

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French

TV5MONDE

Roll Back Malaria appelle à lutter contre le paludisme

Interview Dr. Nafo-Traouré

Duration: 5'32''

Date: Lived 10/07 - 10:30pm

Country: France

Syndicated across: Africpost, France, Canada, Allemagne Vidéo Orange, Côte d'Ivoire Seneweb.com, Sénégal Rewmi.com, Sénégal Titrespresse.com, France

Paludisme: Roll Back Malaria veut mobiliser les idrigeants africains

Malgré une diminution de moitié des morts par le paludisme en 15 ans, le continent africain paye encore le lourd tribut à cette maladie transmise pa rle moustique à l'homme: En partenariat avec l'OMS, Roll Back Malaria continue de tirer la sonnette d'alarme au sujet du paludismeet veut inetrpeller les dirigeants africains présents à la conférence internationale d'Addis-Abeba autour du développement, le 13 juillet prochain. Explications de Fatoumata Nafo Traoré, directrice de cette structure.

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UN Radio

Paludisme: un nouveau plan d'action de 101 milliards de dollars sur 15 ans

Interview Dr. Nafo-Traouré

Duration: 15'00''

Date: 10/07

Country: USA

Quelque 101 milliards de dollars sur 15 ans sont nécessaires pour faire reculer le paludisme dans le monde au cours des prochaines années. Le Programme Faire reculer le Paludisme a lancé, ce vendredi à Genève, son nouveau cadre d’orientation, d’action et d’investissement pour vaincre le paludisme (AIM) de 2016 à 2030. Cette nouvelle stratégie sera présentée la semaine prochaine lors de la troisième Conférence internationale sur le financement du développement qui se tiendra du 13 au 26 juillet 2015 à Addis-Abeba, la capitale éthiopienne. Dans interview accordée à la Radio des Nations Unies, la Directrice exécutive du Partenariat Roll back malaria (RBM) entend rappeler que « le palu ne devrait plus être regardé uniquement comme un problème de santé mais aussi comme un problème de développement ». Car ce fléau a de graves conséquences économiques sur les pays touchés particulièrement en Afrique où les pertes directes sont estimées à 12 milliards de dollars par an et de 1,3 % de croissance sur le continent. L'adoption de ce nouveau plan d'action fait suite à la décision prise en mai dernier par l'Assemblée mondiale de la santé d'adopter une nouvelle stratégie mondiale de lutte contre le paludisme qui vise à réduire la charge mondiale du paludisme de 40% d'ici 2020, et d'au moins 90% d'ici 2030. Elle vise aussi à éliminer la maladie dans 35 nouveaux pays au moins d'ici 2030. Elle comporte trois éléments clés: garantir l'accès universel à la prévention, au diagnostic et au traitement du paludisme; accélérer les efforts vers l'élimination et vers l'obtention du statut de pays/zone exempt/e de paludisme; et renforcer la surveillance de la maladie. Elle souligne l'importance de l'innovation et de la recherche, et le besoin essentiel d'engagement politique, de financement durable, de systèmes de santé solides, et d'une collaboration multisectorielle. Il faut juste rappeler que des millions de personnes ne peuvent toujours pas avoir accès à la prévention et au traitement de la maladie, et la plupart des cas et des décès restent ignorés et non répertoriés. En 2013, selon les estimations, le paludisme a tué 584 000 personnes dont 90% de la mortalité était concentrée en Afrique.

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RCF

Un monde sans plaudisme est-il possible?

Interview Dr. Nafo-Traouré

Duration: 7'09''

Date: 10/07

Country: France

C’est l’objectif ambitieux que se donnent l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé et le Partenariat Roll Back Malaria à l’horizon 2030.

Bien qu’il soit évitable et traitable, 198 millions de cas de paludisme sont recensés en 2015 à travers le monde.478000 d'entre eux ont conduit à la mort, dont une majorité pour des enfants africains de moins de cinq ans. De même, le paludisme demeure une cause et une conséquence majeures de la pauvreté et de l’inégalité dans le monde entier. La maladie freine le développement économique et compromet la sécurité alimentaire. Elle empêche aussi les enfants d’aller à l’école et entrave la capacité des systèmes nationaux à répondre efficacement aux menaces liées à la sécurité sanitaire. Pourtant, depuis 15 ans, la lutte contre la maladie a connue des progrès plus qu’encourageants. La mortalité a baissé de 58 %, soit plus de six millions de vies sauvées. Aussi, pour poursuivre dans cette voie et répondre au défi d’un monde sans palu, il faudra y mettre les moyens financiers. Christian Vadon fait un tour d’horizon du paludisme dans le monde avec le Dr Fatoumata Nafo Traore, directrice exécutive du partenariat Roll Back Malaria.

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RFI

"L'investissement dans la lutte contre le paludisme aide l'économie locale"

Interview Dr. Eric Mouzin

Duration: 4'40''

Date: 10/07

Country: France

Les progrès patents de la lutte contre la maladie enregistrés cette dernière décennie sont encourageants mais n'ont pas suffi à éliminer le paludisme jusqu'à présent. C'est pourtant ce que souhaite cette nouvelle stratégie technique mondiale annoncée par l'OMS le partenariat Roll Back Malaria. Elle concerne la période de 2016/2030 et les experts espèrent atteindre les objectifs internationaux de lutte contre le paludisme. Le docteur Eric Mouzin, épidémiologiste au sein du partenariat Roll Back Malaria, répond aux questions de Michèle Diaz.

« Partout où des efforts importants sont fait dans les pays, on enregistres des succès considérables et la maladie se replie. »

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GENERAL MEDIA COVERAGE

English

UN News Center

Africa: Addis – Greater Investments Needed As Fight Against Malaria Enters Critical Phase - UN

Date: 13/07

Country: USA

Syndicated across: AllAfrica, China Noodls, UK Beijing Bulletin, China Bloomberg, USA Star Africa, France

Despite the tremendous progress made over the past 15 years, greater investments are needed to achieve the goal of a world free of malaria, United NationsSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed today in Ethiopia, where world leaders have gathered to discuss financing for development. “We are coming to the end of an extraordinary period in the fight against malaria,” Mr. Bansaid at an event on Malaria Financing for a New Era, held on the sidelines of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development. Participants at the event in Addis Ababa discussed the new World Health Assembly endorsed Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030 and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership’s Action and Investment to defeat Malaria 2016-2030 (AIM) – for a malaria-free world. AIM – for a malaria-free world builds on the success of the first Global Malaria Action Plan – for a malaria-free world, serving as a guide for collective action for all those engaged in the fight against malaria. It complements the WHO Global Technical Strategy by positioning malaria in the wider development agenda. Together, these documents provide technical guidance and a framework for action and investment to achieve the ambitious malaria elimination targets outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that Member States are set to adopt this September. The final report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) showed that malaria deaths have reached an all-time low, and Mr. Ban noted that this success has been a collective effort forged by partnerships. “It could not have been possible without the contributions of every part of our coalition.” Mr. Ban thanked the heads of State and Ministers of Health and Finance for their effort and leadership, especially the African Leaders Malaria Alliance; the World Health Organization (WHO); the broad coalition of committed partners under the Roll Back Malaria Partnership; and the multitude of international funders, including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank. “As we move toward a new set of global goals for sustainable development, we have an unprecedented opportunity to put an end to the global threat of malaria once and for all,” he stressed. “And we have the strategic vision to do so,” he continued, referring to the two documents discussed at the event. “They provide a comprehensive framework to guide efforts to reduce malaria by 90 per cent by 2030. Achieving this will take continued and greater investments from all countries, including a robust replenishment of the Global Fund.” Success, he added, will also depend on continued coordination of efforts, with clear targets to push towards the ultimate goal of ending malaria. Progress in the fight against malaria since 2000 has resulted in a 58 per cent reduction in malaria mortality - with more than 6.2 million malaria deaths averted between 2001 and 2015, according to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM), which comprises a number of UN agencies and partners. However, malaria remains a major cause and consequence of poverty and inequity worldwide. It impedes economic development, undermines food security, stops children going to school, and absorbs the capacity of national systems to respond effectively to health security threats. Experts say over $100 billion is needed to achieve the 2030 target of reducing the malaria burden by 90 per cent, with an additional $10 billion needed to fund research and development of new tools, including new drugs and insecticides. To achieve the first milestone of reducing malaria incidence and mortality rates by 40 per cent, annual malaria investments will need to rise to $6.4 billion by 2020. “Now, more than ever, we must re-focus our efforts and re-commit our budgets so we can continue saving lives and unlock economic potential in communities around the world,” said Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, RBM’s Executive Director.

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China Development Gateway

China on track to Eradicate Malaria by 2020

Date: 10/07

Country: USA

Syndicated across: China.org.cn, China Xinhua, China CRI Agency, China Beijin Bulletin, China Sina English, China China Economic, China HT Syndication, China WantChinaTimes, China

The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership recently released its new strategies to guide global efforts toward malaria elimination targets, an ambition aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are set to be implemented at the end of this year, saying China is on track to eradicate malaria by 2020. This comes amid promising public health statistics which indicate that there has been a 58 percent reduction of malaria mortality and over 6,2 million deaths averted since 2001. Complementing the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030, RBM's Action and Investment to Defeat Malaria 2016-2030 comes at a critical juncture for the global fight against the potentially fatal disease. "This is the first time that something like this has happened, as we want to show that the malaria community is working closely together to take on the challenges of the unfinished agenda," said WHO Global Malaria Program Director Pedro Alonso. China, whose target is to eliminate malaria by 2020, has not only reported a dramatic decline in malaria cases over the last decades, but also played a pivotal role in global disease-control efforts. "China has made a wonderful contribution to malaria-control by making Artemisia annua, through which Artemisinin combination therapy has been developed, available to the world," RBM Executive Director Fatoumata Nafo-Traore told Xinhua. Artemisinin, also known as Qinghaosu, was first isolated from the Chinese traditional plant Artemisia by Chinese scientists, and the drug is currently the most effective at combating malaria, a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected mosquitoes. According to experts, China, along with Cambodia and Vietnam, is set to eliminate malaria by 2020, while other countries of the Greater Mekong region are expected to eradicate the disease by 2025. China's recent efforts together with unprecedented global achievements are a good starting point for WHO's ambition to reduce malaria case incidence and deaths by 90 percent while eliminating the disease in at least an additional 35 countries by 2030. "Never before, not even in the first eradication campaign of the late 1950s, have we seen such breadth and depth in the disease reduction, with a fall of disease incidence of 37 percent, and a reduction of 69 percent of under-five mortality in African children," Alonso highlighted. Despite these trends, WHO estimates that there will be 214 million cases of malaria infection in 2015, resulting in 472,000 deaths from a disease which is both preventable and treatable. "60 million malaria cases still go undiagnosed and untreated, and 50 percent of populations at risk in Africa do not have access to life-saving bed-nets," added Alonso. According to estimates, more than 100 billion U.S. dollars is needed over the next 15 years to achieve 2030 targets, while an additional 10 billion dollars is required to fund the research and development of new tools such as drugs and insecticides. Nafo-Traore emphasised the importance of prevention through bed-nets, indoor spraying, and integrated vector management approaches, as well as rapid diagnostic tests for all patients with suspected malaria. "Malaria is not only a health issue, it is an issue for development," she said, adding that for every dollar invested in the fight against malaria, a 40 dollar return is to be expected. "Investing to achieve the new 2030 malaria goals will avert nearly 3 billion malaria cases and save over 10 million lives," said Nafo-Traore, while highlighting the economic incentives as the world is expected to generate an additional 4 trillion dollars over the 15 year timeframe. World leaders are to discuss both WHO's and RBM's strategies during the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, starting on July 13.

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VOA (Voice of America)

$100B Plan Seeks to Cut Malaria Cases, Deaths by 90 percent

Date: 10/07

Country: USA

Syndicated across: Kaiser Family Foundation, USA AFM (Africa Fighting Malaria), South Africa

GENEVA— Major health, development and financial agencies have unveiled a $100 billion plan to cut global malaria cases and deaths by 90 percent over the next 15 years. The Roll Back Malaria Partnership says its new strategy will result in a health and economic bonanza for developing countries.

The United Nations Millennium Development Goal to halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria by 2015 has been met. The Roll Back Malaria Partnership is now gearing up to pursue the more ambitious malaria elimination targets set out in the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.

The SDGs call for a 90 percent reduction in malaria cases and deaths globally by 2030 and eliminating the disease in 35 countries. Roll Back Malaria Partnership Executive Director Fatoumata Nafo-Traore calls this an ambitious, but achievable goal. She said it can be done with an investment of $100 billion and universal access to well targeted and proven tools. Nafo-Traore told VOA the new strategy consists of three major interventions. The first is prevention, which she said involves the widespread use of insecticide- treated bed nets and indoor residual spraying, as well as the optimal use of resources for limiting or eradicating malaria-bearing mosquitoes.

Correctly diagnosing the illness, she said, is the second element.

“The first symptom of malaria is a fever and we are using either microscopy or a rapid diagnostic test that can be used even at the village level by non-health workers … and, if it is positive, then ensuring that [the anti-malarial drug] Artemisinin in combination therapy, which is a highly effective treatment for malaria, is available to take care of the patient,” she said.

Nafo-Traore says the third important element in this strategy is research and development. She said it is critical to have new insecticides and new treatments for malaria available in case of growing resistance to these vital tools.

Great progress has been made in the fight against malaria. The World Health Organization reports a 58 percent reduction in malaria deaths since 2000. It says more than 6.2 million malaria deaths were averted between 2001 and 2015.

WHO Global Malaria Program Director Pedro Alonso said these results are excellent, but more remains to be done.

“We still have over 200 million cases every year of malaria, we have close to 500,000 - half a million - deaths due to malaria, mostly among African children, 60 million malaria cases go undiagnosed and untreated…So, as we celebrate the huge success, we recognize the massive unfinished agenda.”

It will cost more than $100 billion to address this unfinished agenda and achieve the 2030 target of reducing global malaria cases and deaths by 90 percent. Still, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, which includes organizations such as the WHO, the U.N. Children’s Fund, and the World Bank, consider this a great investment.

They say there will be a $40 return for every dollar invested globally to reduce malaria, and a $60 return for every dollar invested in sub-Saharan Africa. They say there will be a $4 trillion boost to the world economy if the 2030 goal of averting nearly three billion malaria cases and saving more than 10 million lives is achieved.

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Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)

World leaders to launch strategy next week to defeat malaria

Date: 10/07

Country: Kuwait

BRUSSELS, July 10 (KUNA) -- On Monday July 13, world leaders at the Third International Financing for Development (FfD) meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, will discuss Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030 and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership's( RBM) Action and Investment to Defeat Malaria 2016-2030 (AIM .)RBM noted, in a press release in Geneva on Friday, that progress in the fight for a malaria-free world since 2000 has resulted in a 58 percent reduction in malaria mortality - with more than 6.2 million malaria deaths averted between 2001 and 2015 .However, malaria remains a major cause and consequence of poverty and inequity worldwide. It impedes economic development, undermines food security, stops children going to school, and absorbs the capacity of national systems to respond effectively to health security threats, it said. Experts outline that just over USD 100 billion is needed to eliminate malaria by 2030, with an additional USD 10 billion needed to fund research and development of new tools, including new drugs and insecticides .To achieve the first milestone of reducing malaria incidence and mortality rates by 40%, annual malaria investments will need to rise to USD 6.4 billion by 2020. "Herve Verhoosel, Representative of RBM to the UN, lauded Kuwait's support in fighting malaria. "Since 3 years the Kuwait Fund for development is a partner of RBM. We are grateful of the support of the Kuwait Fund and in the past of the support also received from the State of Kuwait to support the fight against malaria, as one of the priorities of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon," he said in a statement to the Kuwait news agency, KUNA.

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AllAfrica

Ethiopia: A Forum On Malaria Financing At the 3rd Conference On Finance and Development

Date: 13/07

Country: USA

Malaria financing for a New Era: An Exceptional Case for Investment Financing for Development Conference was held at Africa Hall of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa as part of the key sideline meetings of the third International Conference on Finance for Development in Addis Ababa on Monday( July, 13). The Forum was held under the global theme: "Action and Investment to Defeat Malaria 2016-2030: For a Malaria-Free World." Opening the Forum, Ethiopian Prime Minister and Chair of the African Leaders for Malaria Alliance (ALMA), Hailemariam Desalegn noted the event in collaboration with our key anti- malaria partners marks an important meeting in the global transition from the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. "In this critical shift," the Prime Minister stressed "the fight against malaria remains to be both indispensible and indisputable." Emphasizing on the commitment of African leaders, the Prime Minister noted that the African Union has agreed to streamline the priorities along with the prospect of the Sustainable Development Goals. Taking note of ALMA's significant contributions in this regard, the Prime Minister furthered that African leaders stand committed in the fight against the disease. However, he said, malaria still remains a challenge to the economy with the potential of intensifying the cycle of poverty. To which, he cautioned his listeners "we need to redouble our efforts so that we keep on being on track to achieve the global targets by 2030." Accordingly, he noted that Ethiopia is always committed to support the global malaria elimination agenda, adding that the country has launched a Sub-national Malaria Elimination Agenda. he Prime Minister, in his conclusive remarks, also noted that "in the fight against malaria, the road ahead requires our strong resolve to mobilize resources, enhance commitment and strengthen strategic partnerships in the value chain." The meeting was attended by Heads of State and Government, High-Level representatives of regional and international organizations, ministers, experts and other relevant stakeholders. The UN-secretary-General, Ban Ki moon, Chairperson of the African Union, Dr. NkosazanaDlamini Zuma, and President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson, Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General, WHO, and other key figures were also among the speakers.

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Inter Press Service (IPS)

New Malaria Strategy Would Double Current Funding

Date: 13/07

Country: USA

UNITED NATIONS/ADDIS ABABA, Jul 13 2015 (IPS) - Although malaria is both preventable and curable, it still killed an estimated 584,000 people in 2013, the majority of them African children. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mortality rates have fallen by 47 percent globally since 2000. But in Africa, a child dies every minute from malaria. The economic toll is also high: each year, malaria costs the African continent alone an estimated 12 billion dollars in lost productivity, and in some high-burden countries, it can account for as much as 40 percent of public health spending. As the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) kicked off Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, leaders presented a new strategic vision for malaria elimination that calls for doubling current financing by 2020. “The new 2030 malaria goals – and the 2020 and 2025 milestones laid out in the WHO and RBM [Roll Back Malaria Partnership] strategies – are ambitious but achievable,” said Dr. Pedro Alonso, Director of the WHO’s Global Malaria Programme. “We must accelerate progress toward malaria elimination to ensure that neither parasite resistance to drugs, mosquito resistance to insecticides, nor malaria resurgence unravels the tremendous gains to date. We can and must achieve even greater impact to protect the investment the global community has made.” The result of worldwide expert consultation with regions, countries and affected communities, the strategy aims to reduce global malaria case incidence and deaths by 90 percent – compared to 2015 – and eliminate the disease in an additional 35 countries. Experts at the RBM say that just over 100 billion dollars is needed to eliminate malaria by 2030, with an additional 10 billion to fund research and development of new tools, including new drugs and insecticides. To achieve the first milestone of reducing malaria incidence and mortality rates by 40 percent, annual malaria investments will need to rise to 6.4 billion dollars by 2020. “Reaching our 2030 global malaria goals will not only save millions of lives, it will reduce poverty and create healthier, more equitable societies,” said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “Ensuring the continued reduction and elimination of malaria will generate benefits for entire communities, businesses, agriculture, health systems and households.” Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites. The parasites are spread to people through the bites of infected Anopheles mosquitoes, called “malaria vectors”, which bite mainly between dusk and dawn. Approximately half of the world’s population is at risk of contracting malaria. “Investing to achieve the new 2030 malaria goals will avert nearly three billion malaria cases and save over 10 million lives. If we are able to reach these targets, the world stands to generate 4 trillion dollars of additional economic output across the 2016-2030 timeframe,” said Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, Executive Director of the RBM. The fight against malaria has been one of the great success stories of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), with more than six million deaths projected to have been averted between 2000 and 2015, primarily of children less than five years old in sub-Saharan Africa. The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be approved by the United Nations in September, offer a fresh opportunity to ramp up funding for the disease and stamp it out for good, experts say. They note that easing the malaria burden would advance development efforts across sectors by reducing school absenteeism, fighting poverty, increasing gender parity and improving maternal and child health.

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Ghana Business News

Financing for Development meting aims at eliminating malaria globally by 2030

Date: 13/07

Country: USA

Among the many aims of the ongoing 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) is to eliminate malaria in the world by the year 2030.

At the end of the FfD going on in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from July 13 to 16, 2015, and in a few months, UN Member States plan to adopt a new set of Global Goals for Sustainable Development which calls for malaria elimination by 2030. In a joint press statement, the global malaria control community says it has outlined a vision for a malaria-free world and, in order to achieve it, called for increased investment in malaria control and elimination efforts around the world to bring an end to this costly scourge.

African countries are hard hit by malaria. “Each year, malaria costs the African continent alone an estimated minimum of $12 billion in lost productivity, and in some high burden countries it can account for as much as 40 percent of public health expenditure,” the statement notes.

Each year, sub-Saharan Africa alone accounts for 90 per cent of the world’s 300- 500 million cases of malaria and 1.5-2.7 million malaria – related deaths. About 90 per cent of these deaths in Africa are of young children, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

During a special session on financing for malaria elimination, leaders also presented a new strategic vision toward malaria elimination. The vision is outlined in the World Health Organization’s Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016- 2030, which was previously approved by the World Health Assembly and lays out the technical strategy needed to continue driving down the burden of malaria, and the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) 2 Partnership’s Action and Investment to defeat Malaria 2016-2030 (AIM) – for a malaria free world, which charts the investment and collective actions needed to reach the 2030 malaria goals.

The meeting of leaders noted that with greater coordination and increased financing, malaria has been one of the great success stories of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) era, with more than six million deaths projected to have been averted between 2000 and 2015, primarily of children less than five years old in sub-Saharan Africa.

“In that period, globally there has been a 58 per cent decline in mortality. Yet more than half of the world’s population remains at risk of malaria infection, representing an alarming threat to global development. The disease is still endemic in 97 countries and territories around the world,” it states.

The statement indicates that analysis in the AIM document suggests that the global return on investment in malaria elimination by 2030 could reach a staggering 40:1, rising to an unprecedented 60:1 return on investment if malaria is eliminated in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership was quoted in the statement as saying, “The next five years will be critical to get us on the right path to achieve the 2030 targets. We must close the funding gaps and double current malaria financing by 2020. The amount is ambitious, but the investment carries a significant return and could save over 10 million lives, avert nearly three billion malaria cases and unlock over $4 trillion in additional global economic output across the 2016-2030 timeframe.”

For the first time in history, the possibility of eliminating the scourge of malaria from the world is before us. It demands vision, courage, investment and patience over the next 15 years which would lead to faster reduction in poverty and accelerated economic development, enhanced educational attainment and vastly improved national systems to respond effectively to health security threats, the statement indicates.

In 2013 Ghana recorded over 11.3 million cases of Out-Patient-Department OPD) malaria, according to the National malaria Control Programme (NMCP).

On the average 30,300 of such cases were seen each day in the county’s health facilities, the NMCP added.

The Ghana News Agency citing the NMCP report said OPD malaria cases per 1,000 population in 2013, was 417 for the country. The rural areas recorded more cases and higher rate per 1,000 than the urban centres in the previous year. The ranked order of reported cases in 2013 shows that the Upper West region recorded the least cases of 407,000 OPD malaria cases while Brong Ahafo region reported the highest which was about 1,357,000.

However, the highest incidence rate for OPD malaria was recorded in the Upper East region which was 700 per 1,000 populations and the lowest was in Greater Accra which recorded 174 cases per 1,000.

It said the proportion of the total OPD cases attributed to malaria gradually reduced from over 45 per cent in the past to less than 40 per cent.

According to the report, in 2013, the proportion of OPD cases attributed to malaria increase slightly to 43 per cent.

Meanwhile, another GNA report citing Dr. Quansah-Asare indicated that routine health facility data in 2014 showed that deaths due to malaria reduced by 35 per cent from 3,256 in 2011 to 2,200 in 2014, and malaria case fatality rate in under five children was 0.51 per cent as compared to 14 per cent some years back.

She said the 2014 Ghana Demographic Health Survey (GDHS) also put ownership of insecticide treated bed nets in Ghana at 68 per cent, an increase over the 2003 GDHS figure of 18 per cent. As part of its major foreign assistance objective, the US Government focused on malaria prevention and control. In May 2009, President Barack Obama announced the Global Health Initiative (GHI), a comprehensive effort to reduce the burden of disease and promote healthy communities and families around the world. The President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) is a core component of the GHI.

PMI was launched in June 2005 as a five-year, $1.2 billion initiative to rapidly scale up malaria prevention and treatment interventions and reduce malaria-related mortality by 50% in 15 high burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

With the passage of the 2008 Lantos-Hyde Act, funding for PMI was extended and, as part of the GHI, the goal of PMI was adjusted to reduce malaria related mortality by 70% in the original 15 countries by the end of 2015, according to information made available by the USAID.

Ghana became a PMI country in December 2007. Other donor partners include the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), which has provided an estimated $145 million towards malaria control since 2003 and the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) whose five-year, $16 million grant began in 2013.

The US government prepared the 2015 Malaria Operational Plan in collaboration with the Government of Ghana (GOG), National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), and other development partners and based upon analyzing malaria control data and trends and reviewing lessons learned over seven years of PMI implementation.

The planned budget for 2015 is $28 million, according to the USAID.

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The Guardian

Here’s how to wipe malaria off the map

Date: 14/07

Country: UK

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A huge global commitment to reducing malaria has paid off and the goal of near zero deaths from the disease is realistic and affordable. What are we waiting for?

A goal properly set is halfway reached. So said the late Zig Ziglar, who knew a thing or two about lessons for success. Yesterday, not only was a goal set – to bring malaria deaths to near zero in the next 15 years – but we have a definitive plan that maps out what it will take to get us there.

Amid the negotiations taking place at the third international financing for development conference in Addis Ababa, an event – Malaria Financing for a New Era: an Exceptional Case for Investment – saw the presentation of two complementary and compelling plans, laying out technical guidance and charting the investment and collective actions needed to reach the 2030 malaria goals.

The global community has agreed to reduce deaths by 90%, and eliminate the disease in at least 35 countries by 2030. The World Health Organisation’s Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030and the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership’s Action and Investment to defeat Malaria 2016–2030 (Aim) – For a Malaria-free World outline what it’s going to take in terms of resources, targets and joined-up efforts to eliminate this disease once and for all.

Setting this goal – and agreeing on a plan to reach it – matters for many reasons. Not least because the world’s oldest disease still kills a child every minute and robs families, communities and continents of their livelihoods and prosperity. This goal, while ambitious, is realistic and affordable. Over the past 15 years, we have seen how colossal commitment and funding (with a tenfold increase in international financing since 2000) have shrunk the malaria map, saving more than 6 million lives since 2000 alone.

This commitment and concerted action have more than halved child deaths from the disease and, as the final UN report on the MDGs showed, we have surpassed the MDG malaria target. Some 98 malaria-endemic countries have reversed the incidence of malaria nationally compared to 15 years ago, making this progress one of the greatest successes in the history of public health. To finish the job, we know the price tag and the returns. Experts estimate that the cost of achieving the 2030 malaria goals will be $100bn (£64bn) – that requires us to raise $6.5bn per year by 2020. It might sound like a high price tag but there’s a huge return: reaching the 2030 goals will mean more than 10m lives saved, nearly 3bn cases averted and the potential to unlock more than $4tn in additional economic output globally. This is truly one of the “best buys” in global health.

This campaign is also one of the smartest ways to spend aid, as underscored by the recent work of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. Their expert panel, including two Nobel laureates, has identified 19 targets that represent the best value-for-money in development, offering more than $15 back on every dollar of aid that is invested.

It is no surprise that malaria is one of those targets that will do the most social good relative to costs. Every dollar spent on malaria prevention and treatment delivers $36 in social and economic benefits. Or to put it another way: every $5 mosquito net returns $180 to the economy. Surely, by anyone’s standards, that’s a convincing investment.

As the Addis event has shown, funding for malaria needs to come from a range of sources – donors, endemic countries, innovative financing mechanisms (using instruments such as bonds, debt conversion mechanisms or international earmarked taxes, for example), regional development banks and increased engagement by the private sector.

And while the cost to get us closer to the malaria-free world we dream of is high, the price of inaction is even higher. We know from history that gains in malaria can be fragile. Since the 1930s, there have been 75 resurgences of malaria documented in 61 countries – the majority of these reversals have been linked to reduced or suspended funding for malaria control and prevention.

More worryingly, despite the compelling case for investing in malaria, funding levels have stagnated since 2010. In 2013, we had just over half of what we need.

So we have a plan and we have a goal – and we have the end of malaria deaths in our sights. We can now choose to end malaria because we know what it will take to do that. We just have to be willing to do it.

James Whiting is executive director of Malaria No More UK

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The Jakarta Post

Global malaria goals ambitious but achievable: WHO

Date: 14/07

Country: Indonesia

The World Health Organization’s global malaria program director Pedro Alonso said the new 2030 malaria goals and the 2020 and 2025 milestones, laid out in the WHO and Roll Back Malaria strategies, are ambitious but achievable. “We must accelerate progress toward malaria elimination to ensure that neither parasite resistance to drugs, mosquito resistance to insecticides, nor malaria resurgence unravels the tremendous gains to date. We can and must achieve even greater impact to protect the investment the global community has made,” he said on Tuesday. WHO has estimated there will be 214 million cases of malaria infection in 2015, claiming the lives of approximately 472,000 people, the majority of which are African children under 5 years of age. Despite unprecedented progress to date, more than half of the world’s population remains at risk of malaria infection today. In Roll Back Malaria’s AIM document, experts outline that more than US$100 billion is needed to achieve the 2030 target of reducing the malaria burden by 90 percent, with an additional $10 billion needed to fund research and development of new tools, including new drugs and insecticides. To achieve the first milestone of reducing malaria incidence and mortality rates by 40 percent, annual malaria investments will need to rise to $6.4 billion by 2020. Current declines in the international development financing scheme is impacting the world’s ability to maintain progress against malaria, although total international and domestic funding peaked at $2.7 billion in 2013. The UN says acceleration toward malaria elimination will require increased financing by the international donor community, as well as increased domestic financing by affected countries. “Investing to achieve the new 2030 malaria goals will avert nearly 3 billion malaria cases and save over 10 million lives. If we are able to reach these targets, the world stands to generate $4 trillion of additional economic output across the 2016 to 2030 time frame,” said Roll Back Malaria Partnership executive director Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré. “Now, more than ever, we must re-focus our efforts and re-commit our budgets so we can continue saving lives and unlock economic potential in communities around the world,” he said.

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Philippine Information Agency

Roll Back Malaria Partnership releases new strategies to guide global efforts toward malaria elimination by 2030

Date: 12/07

Country: Philippine

Comprehensive framework for investment & action will advance development and defeat killer disease MANILA, July 12 -- On 13 July, world leaders at the 3rd International Financing for Development (FfD) meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, will discuss the new World Health Assembly endorsed Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030 and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership’s Action and Investment to defeat Malaria 2016-2030 (AIM) - for a malaria-free world. Together, these documents provide technical guidance and a framework for action and investment to achieve the ambitious malaria elimination targets outlined in the forthcoming United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This new comprehensive vision will be formally launched during a special malaria financing event convened by H.E. Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia., UNIC Manila said in a statement. Progress in the fight against malaria since 2000 has resulted in a 58% reduction in malaria mortality - with more than 6.2 million malaria deaths averted between 2001 - 2015. However, malaria remains a major cause and consequence of poverty and inequity worldwide. It impedes economic development, undermines food security,stops children going to school, and absorbs the capacity of national systems to respond effectively to health security threats. On the release of this comprehensive new vision, the United Nations Secretary- General, BAN-Ki-moon noted: “Reaching our 2030 global malaria goals will not only save millions of lives, it will reduce poverty and create healthier, more equitable societies. Ensuring the continued reduction and elimination of malaria will generate benefits for entire communities, businesses, agriculture, health systems and households.” The United Nations Secretary-General continued, “Transforming our understanding of the powerful return on investment of ending malaria deaths into dynamic and effective action on the ground will be essential to realizing the future we want, where all people enjoy the equality and dignity they deserve.” The result of worldwide expert consultation with regions, countries and affected communities, the complementary Global Technical Strategy for Malaria and AIM documents share the 2016-2030 timeline of the UN SDGs and provide milestones to measure progress. Together, the documents lay out the technical strategies required to continue driving down the burden of malaria, while charting the investment and collective actions needed to reach the 2030 malaria goals of reducing global malaria case incidence and deaths by 90% - compared to 2015 - and eliminating the disease in an additional 35 countries.

“The new 2030 malaria goals – and the 2020 and 2025 milestones laid out in the WHO and RBM strategies – are ambitious but achievable,” said Dr. Pedro Alonso, Director of the WHO’s Global Malaria Programme. “We must accelerate progress toward malaria elimination to ensure that neither parasite resistance to drugs, mosquito resistance to insecticides, nor malaria resurgence unravels the tremendous gains to date. We can and must achieve even greater impact to protect the investment the global community has made.” While completely preventable and treatable, WHO has estimated that there will be 214 million cases of malaria infection in 2015, claiming the lives of approximately 472,000 people,the majority of them African children under five years of age.Despite unprecedented progress to-date, more than half of the world’s population remainsat risk of malaria infection today. Adequate and predictable financing and innovations for new tools will be critical to scale-up interventions and reach the WHO/RBM targets of malaria elimination. In RBM’s AIM document, experts outline that over US $100 billion is needed to achieve 2030 target of reducing the malaria burden by 90%, with an additional US$ 10 billion needed to fund research and development of new tools, including new drugs and insecticides. To achieve the first milestone of reducing malaria incidence and mortality rates by 40%, annual malaria investments will need to rise to US$6.4 billion by 2020. While total international and domestic funding peaked at US $2.7 billion in 2013, current declines in international development financing is impacting the world’s ability to maintain progress against malaria. Acceleration toward malaria elimination will require increased financing by the international donor community, as well as increased domestic financing by affected countries. “Investing to achieve the new 2030 malaria goals will avert nearly 3 billion malaria cases and save over 10 million lives. If we are able to reach these targets, the world stands to generate US $4 trillion of additional economic output across the 2016-2030 timeframe,” said Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership. “Now, more than ever, we must re-focus our efforts and re-commit our budgets so we can continue saving lives and unlock economic potential in communities around the world.” At a cost of US $5-8 per case averted, malaria has continually proven to be one of the most cost-effective investments in public health, with relatively low investments yielding high results even beyond the health sector, and experts estimate that the return will only continue growing as countries begin focusing on elimination targets. New analysis in AIM reveals that the global return on investment of achieving the 2030 malaria goals is 40:1, rising to an unprecedented 60:1 for sub-Saharan Africa. This reinforces the evidence that continued efforts to reduce the burden of malaria have the potential to stimulate transformative and inclusive growth. Malaria reduction and elimination will be critical to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and will help advance development efforts across sectors by reducing school absenteeism, fighting poverty, increasing gender parity and improving maternal and child health. Lives saved from effective malaria interventions have been linked to a 20% reduction in all-cause child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa since 2000, while efforts to prevent malaria in pregnancy have averted nearly 95,000 newborn deaths between 2009 and 2012.These numbers represent an entire generation given the chance to live healthy lives and grow into strong, contributing members of society.(UN)

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Le Monde

Alerte sur la baisse des moyens alloués à la lutte contre le paludisme

Date: 10/07

Country: France

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Le partenariat Roll Back Malaria (RBM) tire la sonnette d’alarme pour « mettre fin à un scandale qui dure alors que tous les outils sont à disposition pour y mettre fin ». Dans le cadre de la conférence internationale autour du développement qui s’ouvre lundi 13 juillet à Addis-Abeba (Ethiopie), le RBM publie de nouvelles stratégies pour relancer le financement international de la lutte contre le paludisme, qui touche en particulier l’Afrique subsaharienne et l’Asie du Sud. Cette maladie qui se transmet à l’homme par la piqûre de moustiques infectés tue chaque année dans le monde près de 600 000 personnes, dont la très grande majorité sont des enfants de moins de 5 ans. Le RMB, lancé en 1998 conjointement par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS), l’Unicef (le Fonds des Nations unies pour l’enfance), le Programme des Nations unies pour le développement et la Banque mondiale, a pour mission de coordonner la lutte contre le paludisme au niveau international. En 2000, les Nations unies ont inscrit ce combat parmi les Objectifs du millénaire en matière de développement. Les résultats enregistrés depuis étaient jusqu’ici plus qu’encourageants. Le taux de mortalité due au paludisme a baissé de 47 % entre 2000 et 2013 ; ce qui représente 4,3 millions de vies sauvées grâce au système de prévention et de traitement mis en place dans les pays touchés – tests de dépistage, moustiquaires imprégnées d’insecticides, traitement à base d’artémisinine, etc.

Cri d’alarme Mais pour la première fois depuis quinze ans, le financement international de la lutte contre le paludisme est en baisse par rapport à l’année précédente. Après un pic atteint en 2013 à 2,7 milliards de dollars, le combat contre la maladie n’a été financé qu’à hauteur de 2,5 milliards en 2014. Cette différence de 200 millions pourrait sembler une goutte d’eau dans cette bataille qui se joue à coups de milliard, mais la lutte contre le paludisme est très fragile. Cette baisse inattendue pourrait mettre en péril le travail réalisé jusque-là. Le plan stratégique publié aujourd’hui par le partenariat Roll Back Malaria sonne comme une alerte : si la communauté internationale ne se remobilise pas, si les efforts entrepris jusqu’à présent ne sont pas maintenus, les bons résultats de ces dernières années risquent de ne pas durer. Pis, ils pourraient avoir été vains. Les responsabilités semblent partagées entre les Etats qui alimentent habituellement le fonds mondial et les gouvernements des pays touchés par la maladie, dans cette crise qui touche l’aide au développement en général, pas seulement la lutte contre le paludisme. La crise économique a réorienté les priorités de certains bailleurs traditionnels. L’OMS se tourne donc de plus en plus vers des partenaires privés, entreprises ou particuliers. Avec un budget deux fois supérieur à celui de l’OMS, la Fondation Bill & Melinda Gates, par exemple, investit des sommes très importantes dans ce combat. L’objectif d’un « monde sans paludisme » lancé par Roll Back Malaria nécessite en effet un financement important et pérenne. Le partenariat estime que 100 milliards de dollars devront être consacrés à la lutte contre la maladie d’ici à 2030 pour atteindre l’objectif de réduction de 90 % du taux de mortalité liée au paludisme (par rapport à 2015). Il rappelle surtout que les coûts d’un échec seraient supérieurs aux montants nécessaires pour atteindre les cibles de 2030.

Conséquences désastreuses La lutte contre le paludisme, une maladie qui menace encore 3,2 milliards de personnes dans le monde – près de la moitié de la population mondiale est donc exposée – est très fragile, elle nécessite une attention de tous les instants et une mobilisation constante. Dans certains pays d’Asie par exemple, où le recul de la maladie est net, l’efficacité du traitement de référence est menacée par la prise de médicaments mal prescrits, sous-dosés ou par un mauvais suivi des prescriptions. Or ce phénomène de résistance au traitement de base s’approche dangereusement de l’Inde, pays qui compte 1,2 milliard d’habitants et où le paludisme est encore très présent. Roll Back Malaria identifie clairement la cause de ces carences à un « affaiblissement des programmes de lutte », dû à un manque de ressources financières. Ce retour en arrière pourrait avoir des conséquences désastreuses, en particulier dans les régions où le nombre de cas a déjà commencé à diminuer et où, donc, l’immunité naturelle des populations décline, les rendant extrêmement vulnérables en cas de résurgence de la maladie. Par ailleurs, l’épidémie fulgurante d’Ebola qui a frappé l’Afrique subsaharienne a déréglé des systèmes de santé déjà fragiles, relançant le nombre de cas de paludisme non traités. Au-delà de son impact sur la santé, en particulier des femmes et des enfants, le paludisme est une des causes – au moins autant qu’elle en est la conséquence – du maintien dans la pauvreté de plusieurs régions du monde. Il pèse sur l’activité économique des pays touchés, en augmentant l’absentéisme des travailleurs et en faisant baisser leur productivité, mais aussi sur l’éducation, et bien sûr sur les systèmes de santé publique. La fin de la grande pauvreté dans le monde passera donc par l’élimination du paludisme.

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France Inter

Comment faire disparaitre le paludisme d’ici 2030 ?

Date: 10/07

Country: France

L'objectif est ambitieux : réduire de 90% le paludisme dans le monde d'ici 2030. La méthode est simple selon l'émanation de l'ONU, "Roll Back Malaria" : il faut appliquer les bonnes méthodes et investir.

Il y a 15 ans, le paludisme tuait plus d'un million de personnes chaque année dans le monde. Aujourd'hui, moitié moins : 500 000 environ. Récemment, le paludisme a disparu du Maroc, des Émirats Arabes Unis. Une quinzaine d'autres pays sont en voie de l'éliminer, comme le Swaziland ou le Cap Vert. Le paludisme sévit encore dans presque cent pays. L'éliminer, l'éradiquer totalement, c'est pourtant possible. Les chercheurs n'ont certes pas encore trouvé de vaccin fiable mais il y a d'autres solutions, qui existent, et qui peuvent suffire, explique le Docteur Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré. Elle dirige le partenariat international issu de l'ONU, Roll back Malaria : “Ces pays qui l'ont éliminé ont fait une combinaison de stratégies actuellement à disposition. Faire de la prévention avec des moustiquaires imprégnées d'insecticides ou faire de la pulvérisation intra domicilaire par exemple.” Pour éliminer le paludisme d'ici 15 ans, il faudrait investir selon la communauté internationale 100 milliards de dollars mais le gain serait aussi considérable : 10 millions de vies sauvées, un économie de 4 000 milliards de dollars grâce à l'argent que les pays touchés ne dépenseraient plus pour combattre le paludisme mais aussi grâce à une population en bonne santé avec la perspective de développer l'agriculture ou le tourisme dans ces zones.

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Destination Santé

Paludisme : un nouveau plan pour… 2030

Date: 10/07

Country: France

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De nouveaux objectifs dans la lutte contre le paludisme ont été présentés ce jour à Genève par l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS). Le plan 2016- 2030 prévoit d’éviter 3 milliards de cas de contamination et de sauver plus de 10 millions de vie ! En 2015, le monde a enregistré 214 millions de nouveaux cas de paludisme et 472 000 décès, dont une majorité d’enfants africains de moins de 5 ans. Toutefois depuis l’an 2000, la mortalité liée à la maladie a baissé de 58% et plus de 6,2 millions de vies ont été sauvées. Afin d’accélérer la lutte contre le paludisme l’OMS et le Partenariat Roll Back Malaria ont respectivement rendu publics deux documents :

 Stratégie mondiale contre le paludisme 2016-2030;  Action et Investissement pour vaincre le paludisme.

Les objectifs sont extrêmement ambitieux. Les deux documents présentent les stratégies techniques nécessaires pour réduire encore le fardeau du paludisme. D’ici 2030, le nombre de cas et de décès devra baisser de 90% par rapport à 2015. La maladie devra par ailleurs être éliminée dans 35 pays ! « Les nouvelles cibles 2030 de lutte contre le paludisme sont ambitieuses mais réalisables » indique le Dr Pedro Alonso, directeur du programme mondial de lutte antipaludique. Au total, les experts estiment à 100 milliards de dollars l’investissement nécessaire pour mener à bien ces objectifs ! A noter que les fonds proviendront en grande majorité des donations des pays membres de l’OMS.

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RFI

Le paludisme plus que jamais dans la ligne de mire de l'OMS

Date: 10/07

Country: France

Roll Back Malaria (Faire reculer le paludisme), le bras armé de l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé dans la lutte contre le paludisme, dévoile ce 10 juillet son nouveau plan pour venir à bout de ce fléau. Forts des résultats obtenus depuis l’an 2000, les deux organisations visent pour la période 2016-2030 « un monde sans paludisme » grâce à une stratégie audacieuse et à des investissements soutenus. Beaucoup a été fait, mais ce n’est jamais assez quand on a affaire à un tueur redoutable comme le paludisme. De plus, il ne faut surtout pas relâcher ses efforts, insiste Roll Back Malaria (RBM) au risque de se retrouver dans une situation pire qu’au départ, comme cela s’est produit en Inde, au Soudan ou en Thaïlande. Une mise en garde qui n’enlève rien aux progrès importants qui ont été réalisés ces quinze dernières années pour se rapprocher desObjectifs de développement durable (ODD) des Nations unies. On l’a peut-être oublié, mais en l’an 2000, on déplorait dans le monde un million de morts par an, dont une large majorité d’enfants, fauchés par la maladie. Grâce à beaucoup de détermination tant pour la prévention que pour les traitements, la mortalité due au paludisme a baissé de 58 % ; ce sont ainsi plus de 6,2 millions de décès qui ont été évités.

100 milliards sur 15 ans

Malgré ces importantes avancées, beaucoup reste à faire. En 2015, ce sont encore 214 millions de personnes qui ont été touchées par le paludisme parmi lesquelles 472 000 sont mortes dont une majorité d’enfants africains de moins de cinq ans. La menace est toujours bien présente : plus de la moitié de la population mondiale est encore exposée au risque paludique.

Les nouvelles stratégies publiées aujourd’hui ont pour but de consolider et d’amplifier les résultats obtenus par Roll Back Malaria et l’OMS. Dénommé « Action et investissement pour vaincre le paludisme » (AIM), le programme de RBM adossé à « Stratégie technique mondiale contre le paludisme » de l’OMS, vise à l’échéance 2016-2030 à réduire les taux de mortalité et d’incidence liés au paludisme de 90 % par rapport à 2015.

Le nouveau programme se fixe en même temps l’objectif d’éliminer la maladie dans au moins 35 pays additionnels et de prévenir sa réapparition dans les pays déjà exempts. Aujourd’hui, on compte plus de 100 pays sans paludisme alors qu’au moins 55 autres sont sur le point de réduire de 75 % l’incidence de la maladie d’ici la fin de 2015 et que 26 s’emploient à l’éliminer totalement.

Tout cela va coûter cher à mettre en œuvre. Les experts estiment en effet qu’un peu plus de 100 milliards de dollars seront nécessaires pour éliminer le paludisme d’ici 2030. Il faudra encore ajouter 10 milliards pour la recherche et le développement notamment de nouveaux médicaments et insecticides.

La santé, c'est de l'argent

Après un pic des financements à 2,6 milliards de dollars en 2013, Roll Back Malaria constate depuis un déclin dans les contributions. La 3e Conférence internationale sur le financement du développement international qui se tiendra à Addis-Abeba, en Ethiopie du 13 au 17 juillet 2015, sera l’occasion de galvaniser autant les donateurs internationaux que les acteurs nationaux des pays affectés.

Un investissement qui devrait rapporter beaucoup selon Roll Back Malaria : « Atteindre les nouvelles cibles de 2030 contre le paludisme permettra d’éviter presque 3 milliards de cas de contamination et de sauver plus de 10 millions de vies. […]Le monde pourrait ainsi générer un montant stupéfiant de 4 000 milliards de dollars de production économique additionnelle sur la période 2016-2030 ».

Ce retour sur investissement hors du commun s’explique par les bénéfices économiques apportés par une population en bonne santé. Il ne s’agit nullement de projections fantaisistes, mais de faits réels comme on peut le voir dans les régions qui sont parvenues à réduire le paludisme. On y a constaté des gains économiques substantiels et une croissance de leur économie plus de cinq fois supérieure à celle des régions impaludées. La prévention et le traitement du paludisme figurent parmi les interventions de santé publique les plus rentables.

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Jeune Afrique

Paludisme : l’OMS lance un plan pour réduire de 90% les cas mortels d’ici 2030

Date: 10/07

Country: France

Syndicated across: Guinée Diversité, Guinea Agence de presse Sénégalaise, Senegal seninfoweb, Senegal

Mais pour atteindre cet objectif ambitieux, il faudra plus que doubler le financement actuel consacré à la lutte contre la maladie. Éliminer le paludisme est un combat difficile puisqu’il n’existe encore aucun vaccin efficace pour prévenir la maladie transmise par la simple piqûre d’un moustique infecté. C’est pourtant l’objectif, dévoilé vendredi 10 juillet, de l’OMS et Roll Back Malaria (une plate-forme de coordination internationale contre le paludisme) dans 35 pays du monde, situés en Asie et en Amérique du sud. Partout ailleurs, les deux partenaires prévoient réduire de 90 % le nombre de cas mortels d’ici 2030. Encore aujourd’hui, la moitié de la population mondiale risque de contracter la maladie, souvent mortelle. Près de 500 000 victimes prévues en 2015 Au cours des 15 dernières années, le taux de mortalité a chuté de 58 %, ce qui a permis de sauver plus de 6 millions de personnes. Malgré ces progrès, le paludisme fait encore de nombreuses victimes. Selon les estimations, en 2015, 214 millions de personnes devraient être touchées par le paludisme et parmi elles, 472 000 en mourront. Et ce sont des enfants africains de moins de cinq ans qui devraient en être les principales victimes. L’Afrique demeure le continent le plus touché par le paludisme où neuf cas mortels sur dix sont recensés. Prévenir pour sauver des vies La prévention demeure le moyen le plus efficace de sauver des vies, soutient le Dr Éric Mouzin, médecin épidémiologiste au partenariat Roll Back Malaria. Une série d’actions sera déployée au cours des 15 prochaines années pour accélérer la lutte contre la maladie : distribution de moustiquaires, vaporisation d’insecticide, prévention du paludisme chez la femme enceinte, détection précoce de la maladie et distribution de médicaments. « Réduire de 90 % le nombre de cas mortels est peut-être ambitieux mais c’est un plan réaliste si on se donne les moyens financiers. Toutefois, il faudra multiplier par deux les investissements », explique le docteur Mouzin.

Des besoins estimés à 100 milliards de dollars Pour éliminer le paludisme d’ici 2030, les besoins se chiffrent au total à plus de 100 milliards de dollars. Pour réussir à atteindre la première cible de réduction établie à 40 % en 2020, le financement annuel doit avoir atteint la barre des 6,4 milliards de dollars. Et pourtant depuis quelques années, le montant des investissements stagne autour de 2,5 milliards de dollars.

« Investir pour atteindre les nouvelles cibles 2030 de lutte contre le paludisme, permettra d’éviter presque 3 milliards de cas de contamination et de sauver plus de 10 millions de vies. Si nous pouvons atteindre ces cibles, le monde pourrait générer un montant stupéfiant de 4 000 milliards de dollars US de production économique additionnelle sur la période 2016-2030″, a indiqué Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, directrice exécutive de Roll Back Malaria. La lutte contre le paludisme permet aussi de diminuer les taux de mortalité des mères et de leurs enfants, les populations les fragiles quant à cette maladie. Elle s’inscrit aussi dans le cadre des Objectifs de développement durables des Nations unies qui seront lancés en septembre prochain.

Plan Roll Back Malaria 2016-2030

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Le Quotidien du Médecin

Paludisme : plus de 100 milliards de dollars nécessaires pour une élimination d’ici à 2030

Date: 10/07

Country: France

L’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) et le partenariat Roll back malaria (RBM) ont rendu publics deux rapports décrivant, pour l’un, les stratégies techniques nécessaires à mettre en place, pour l’autre, un cadre d’action et d’investissement, pour atteindre les objectifs d’élimination du paludisme des Nations unies, d’ici à 2030. Ces rapports ont été publiés dans le cadre de la troisième conférence internationale sur le financement du développement international, qui se tiendra à Addis-Abeba, en Éthiopie, entre le 13 et le 17 juillet. « Les nouvelles cibles 2030 de lutte contre le paludisme – et les objectifs intermédiaires de 2020 et 2025 présentés dans les stratégies de l’OMS et du partenariat RBM, sont ambitieux mais réalisables, a déclaré le directeur du programme mondial de lutte antipaludique de l’OMS, le Dr Pedro Alonso. Nous devons accélérer les progrès vers l’élimination du paludisme pour s’assurer que ni la résistance des parasites aux médicaments et insecticides, ni une résistance des moustiques aux insecticides, ni une résurgence du paludisme ne réduisent à néant les gains immenses atteints à ce jour. Nous pouvons et devons protéger l’investissement réalisé par la communauté mondiale. »

Mortalité réduite de plus de 50 % en 15 ans

La lutte contre le paludisme a en effet fait de grands progrès ces 15 dernières années : la mortalité due à la maladie a chuté de 58 % et plus de 6,2 millions de décès ont été évités. Cependant, plus de la moitié de la population mondiale demeure exposée au risque d’une infection paludique, et l’OMS estime à 214 millions le nombre de cas de paludisme en 2015, coûtant la vie à 472 000 personnes, dont une majorité d’enfants de moins de 5 ans en Afrique.

Plus de 110 milliards nécessaires

Alors que les financements internationaux et nationaux de la lutte contre le paludisme ont atteint un pic en 2013 (2,6 milliards de dollars), le déclin actuel du financement du développement international affecte la capacité mondiale à maintenir les progrès de lutte contre le paludisme, explique RBM, qui appelle à une relance des investissements. Dans son document « Action et investissement pour vaincre le paludisme 2016-2030 » (AIM), les experts avancent qu’un peu plus de 100 milliards de dollars US seront nécessaires pour atteindre ces objectifs, auxquels viendront s’ajouter 10 milliards de dollars US pour financer la recherche et le développement de solutions innovantes et notamment de nouveaux médicaments et insecticides. « Investir pour atteindre les nouvelles cibles 2030 de lutte contre le paludisme, permettra d’éviter presque 3 milliards de cas de contamination et de sauver plus de 10 millions de vies », conclut Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, directeur exécutif du partenariat RBM.

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Algérie Presse Service

Le paludisme au centre d’une conférence sur le financement du8 développement international lundi à Addis-Abeba

Date: 10/07

Country: Algeria

NEW YORK (Nations Unies) - La nouvelle Stratégie technique mondiale contre le paludisme sera au centre de la troisième conférence internationale sur le financement du développement international prévue lundi dans la capitale éthiopienne, Addis Abeba. Selon un communiqué de l'ONU dont l'APS a obtenu une copie vendredi, les dirigeants mondiaux examineront lors de la cette Conférence la nouvelle Stratégie technique mondiale contre le paludisme 2016-2030 validée par l'Assemblée mondiale de la Santé et "Action et Investissement pour vaincre le paludisme" 2016-2030 (AIM), pour un monde sans paludisme du Partenariat Roll Back Malaria. Ces deux documents offrent à la fois une assistance technique et un cadre d'action et d’investissement pour atteindre les objectifs ambitieux d'élimination du paludisme énoncés dans les prochains Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) des Nations Unies. Cette nouvelle vision globale sera officiellement lancée lors d'un événement spécial sur le financement du paludisme convoqué par le Premier ministre éthiopien Hailemariam Dessalegn. Conjointement, les deux documents présentent les stratégies techniques nécessaires pour réduire encore le fardeau du paludisme, tout en déterminant le niveau des investissements et actions collectives nécessaires pour atteindre les cibles 2030 de réduction de 90% de l’incidence et des décès liés au paludisme û comparé à 2015 û et d’élimination de la maladie dans 35 pays additionnels. Grâce aux progrès de la lutte contre le paludisme atteints depuis l’an 2000, la mortalité due au paludisme a baisée de 58% et plus de 6,2 millions de décès dus au paludisme ont été évités entre 2001 et 2015. Cependant, le paludisme demeure une cause et conséquence majeure de la pauvreté et de l’inégalité dans le monde entier. La maladie freine le développement économique, compromet la sécurité alimentaire empêche les enfants d’aller à l’école, et entrave la capacité des systèmes nationaux à répondre efficacement aux menaces à la sécurité sanitaire, d'après le communiqué de l'ONU. Lors de l'annonce de cette nouvelle vision globale, le secrétaire général des Nations Unies, Ban Ki-moon a déclaré : "Atteindre les objectifs internationaux de lutte contre le paludisme de 2030 permettra non seulement de sauver des millions de vies, mais également de réduire la pauvreté et de créer des sociétés plus équitables regroupant des personnes en meilleure santé. Garantir une réduction et une élimination continue du paludisme produira des bénéfices pour des communautés entières, les entreprises, l’agriculture, les systèmes de santé et les familles". "Investir pour atteindre les nouvelles cibles 2030 de lutte contre le paludisme, permettra d’éviter presque 3 milliards de cas de contamination et de sauver plus de 10 millions de vies. Si nous pouvons atteindre ces cibles, le monde pourrait générer un montant stupéfiant de 4.000 milliards de dollars US de production économique additionnelle sur la période 2016-2030", a indiqué de son côté, Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, Directeur exécutif du Partenariat Roll Back Malaria. L'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) estime à 214 millions le nombre de personnes atteintes de paludisme en 2015, parmi lesquelles 472.000 en sont mortes dont une majorité d’enfants africains de moins de cinq ans.

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Agence Ecofin

1 dollar investi dans la lutte contre le paludisme, c’est 40 dollars d’économie pour l’avenir

Date: 11/07

Country: Senegal

Syndicated across: Afropages.fr, France Monde Economique, Suisse Africanewswire.net, USA Cameroonvoice.com, Cameroon

Selon Roll Back Malaria (RBM), l’organisme mondial en charge de la lutte contre le paludisme, il est possible, d’ici 2030, de réduire de 90% les conséquences du paludisme. Cet objectif ambitieux nécessitera un peu plus de 6 milliards d’euros par an. En contrepartie, le monde économisera 4000 milliards d’euros en sauvant plus de 10 millions de vies.

Car la maladie « freine le développement économique, compromet la sécurité alimentaire empêche les enfants d’aller à l’école », assure Fatoumata Nafo Traoré, directrice générale RBM. « Investir pour atteindre les nouvelles cibles 2030 de lutte contre le paludisme permettra d’éviter presque 3 milliards de cas de contamination et de sauver plus de 10 millions de vies. Si nous pouvons atteindre ces cibles, le monde pourrait générer un montant stupéfiant de 4000 milliards de dollars US de production économique additionnelle sur la période 2016-2030 » déclare-t-elle sur TV5 Monde.

A ce jour, le paludisme fait environ ½ million de morts par an, dont 90% sont des enfants de moins de 5 ans. La situation est en train de s’aggraver, particulièrement dans les pays qui ont souffert de l’épidémie d’Ebola. Dans ces pays, la mobilisation de toutes les ressources de santé contre Ebola, a permis au paludisme de regagner du terrain. Selon la revue The Lancet, rien qu’au Libéria, en Guinée et en Sierra Leone, le paludisme a fait 11 000 morts supplémentaires durant cette période, soit autant que toutes les victimes de la fièvre Ebola.

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Top Santé

Le nouveau plan de lutte de l’ONU prévoit de réduire de 90% l’incidence et la mortalité liée à cette maladie infectieuse

Date: 13/07

Country: France

L'agence onusienne contre le paludisme, baptisée Rock back malaria, a dévoilé sa nouvelle stratégie pour éradiquer le fléau du paludisme. Cette maladie potentiellement mortelle est due à des parasites transmis à l'homme par piqûres de moustiques infectés. En 2015, la maladie a été identifiée sur 214 millions personnes et a causé 472 000 décès, dont une majorité d'enfants africains de moins de cinq ans, rappelle l'OMS. Ce lundi 13 juillet, la communauté internationale se penche sur les modalités de prévenir cette hécatombe à l'occasion de la Troisième Conférence internationale sur le financement du développement international. L'objectif pour 2016-2030, défini dans la "Stratégie technique mondiale contre le paludisme" de l'OMS, est de réduire les taux de mortalité et d'incidence liés au paludisme de 90 % par rapport à 2015. Les efforts de prévention et la mise à disposition de traitements prévention ont permis de diminuer de 58 % la mortalité ces quinze dernières années. Cela a permis de sauver 6,2 millions de vies. Toutefois, si du chemin a été parcouru, la route est encore longue.

Un retour sur investissement substantiel Pour en venir à bout, il est prévu d'investir 100 milliards de dollars, "auxquels viendront s'ajouter 10 milliards de dollars pour financer la recherche et le développement de solutions innovantes et notamment de nouveaux médicaments et insecticides", détaille l'ONU dans un communiqué repris par Pourquoi docteur. Ces chantiers se traduiraient par des progrès substantiels puisque leur réussite épargnerait presque 3 milliards de cas de contamination et 10 millions de vies. "Le monde pourrait ainsi générer un montant stupéfiant de 4 000 milliards de dollars de production économique additionnelle sur la période 2016-2030", affirme l'agence Roll Back Malaria.

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France Inter

Comment faire disparaitre le paludisme d’ici 2030 ?

Date: 13/07

Country: France

Syndicated across: Alvinet, France Mali News, Mali Bamada.net, Sénégal leral.net, Sénégal aOuga.com, Burkina Faso

L’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) a dans son œil de mire le paludisme, qui tue chaque année des milliers de personnes. Ainsi afin d’éradiquer cette maladie, « Roll Back Malaria », un organe onusien chargé de la lutte contre le paludisme, a dévoilé sa stratégie pour réduire de 90% l’incidence et la mortalité liées au paludisme.

La lutte contre le paludisme est l’un des cheval de bataille de l’OMS. En effet, inquiète des décès liés à cette maladie, l’organisation a présenté son plan pour venir à bout du paludisme. Un plan initié par l’organe onusien « Roll Back Malaria » en charge de la lutte contre le paludisme. Cette nouvelle stratégie vise à réduire de 90% l’incidence et la mortalité liées au paludisme dans le monde d’ici 2030. Le document est actuellement examiné en Éthiopie lors de la troisième conférence internationale sur le financement du développement international.

Au cours des quinze dernières années, la mortalité due au paludisme a baissé de 58%. Plus de 6,2 millions de décès ont été évités. Toutefois le paludisme est loin d’être éradiqué car il continue de faire des victimes surtout auprès des populations les plus fragiles. Selon l’OMS, le nombre de cas en 2017 pourrait atteindre 214 millions, 472 000 décès pourrait être imputés à la maladie. Afin d’atteindre son objectif, l’OMS préconise un investissement de plus de 100 milliards de dollars auxquels viendront s’ajouter 10 milliards de dollars pour financer la recherche et le développement de solutions innovantes et notamment de nouveaux médicaments et insecticides.

Ces investissements financiers sont essentiels pour réduire la mortalité liée au paludisme. Selon la directrice exécutive du partenariat « Roll Back Malaria », « investir pour atteindre les nouvelles cibles 2030 de lutte contre le paludisme permettra d’éviter presque 3 milliards de cas de contamination et de sauver plus de 10 millions de vies ». Cette maladie en plus d’être mortelle, freine le développement économique, compromet la sécurité alimentaire et empêche les enfants d’aller à l’école.

En Afrique de l’Ouest, le paludisme a fait 11 000 morts supplémentaires dans les trois pays touchés par le virus Ebola à savoir la Guinée, le Liberia et la Sierra Leone. La lutte contre Ebola a créé un affaiblissement des moyens alloués au traitement contre le paludisme. Par exemple, les ruptures d’approvisionnement en moustiquaires dans ces pays ont coûté la vie à 3 900 personnes.

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Les News Eco.fr

OMS : il faut investir 100 milliards de dollars pour éradiquer le paludisme

Date: 13/07

Country: France

L’OMS vient de dévoiler un ambitieux projet qui vise à réduire de 90% les décès liés aupaludisme à l’horizon 2030. Malgré un coût de 100 milliards d’euros, le programme est jugé « réalisable » par l’organisation. Mise au point par l’institution « Roll Back Malaria », cette feuille de route doit encore être validée par les chefs d’Etats réunis à Addis-Abeba pour la troisième Conférence internationale sur le financement du développement international.

Le paludisme « freine le développement économique, compromet la sécurité alimentaire empêche les enfants d’aller à l’école », assure Fatoumata Nafo Traoré, directrice générale RBM. « Investir pour atteindre les nouvelles cibles 2030 de lutte contre le paludisme permettra d’éviter presque 3 milliards de cas de contamination et de sauver plus de 10 millions de vies. Si nous pouvons atteindre ces cibles, le monde pourrait générer un montant stupéfiant de 4000 milliards de dollars US de production économique additionnelle sur la période 2016-2030 » déclare-t-elle sur TV5 Monde.

L’OMS veut sauver 10 millions de personnes d’ici 2030 Ce plan sur 15 ans, ayant pour titre « Action et Investissement pour vaincre le paludisme », se base tout d’abord sur les progrès récents. Depuis 2000, les morts causées par le paludisme ont baissé de plus de 50% à l’échelle mondiale. A l’heure actuelle pourtant, plus de 200 millions de cas de paludisme sont à signaler sur l’ensemble de la planète, et l’aide internationale ne cesse de baisser depuis le pic de près de 3 milliards de dollars atteint en 2013.

La stratégie de l’OMS est donc de concentrer les aides dans le domaine de la prévention, pour sauver 10 millions de vies d’ici 2030. Les infections par le paludisme sont en effet un frein majeur à l’économie en Afrique. D’après les estimations de ce rapport, une vaste campagne de prévention serait en mesure de faire réaliser aux Etats un bénéfice 4000 milliards de dollars sur cette période, en améliorant considérablement leur production économique.

La lutte contre EBOLA a diminué les aides contre le paludisme Le projet de l’OMS obéit également à une situation d’urgence. La lutte contre le virus EBOLA a diminué les aides pour faire face au paludisme : dans les pays où l’épidémie a été la plus active, 11000 morts supplémentaires ont été causées par le paludisme faute d’une prévention adaptée. L’objectif est ainsi de confirmer les progrès connus depuis l’an 2000 pour enrayer la maladie, en appliquant ce nouveau plan d’action à la portée sanitaire inédite. L’épidémie d’Ebola en Guinée a conduit à une explosion des cas de paludisme non traités dans ce pays qui pourrait avoir provoqué un excédent de décès bien supérieur à ceux dus au virus Ebola, selon une étude publiée mercredi. Selon l’étude publiée dans la revue The Lancet Infectious Diseases, les établissements de soins guinéens ont accueilli 74.000 cas de paludisme en moins au cours de l’année 2014 par rapport aux années précédentes, ce qui a conduit à une hausse sensible du taux de mortalité du paludisme en Guinée.

Aucun chiffre précis n’a été avancé, mais le Dr Mateusz Plucinski, des Centres de contrôle et de prévention des maladies (CDC) d’Atlanta, qui a coordonné l’étude, a indiqué à l’AFP que les décès supplémentaires dus au paludisme étaient « vraisemblablement beaucoup plus importants que ceux provoqués par le virus Ebola ».

Ce virus est à l’origine d’une épidémie qui a fait plus de 11.000 morts depuis l’an dernier en Afrique de l’ouest dont plus de 2.400 en Guinée.

L’épidémie a touché de plein fouet le personnel soignant, conduisant à la fermeture de certains centres, tandis que les centres ouverts ont été largement désertés par les autres malades par crainte d’une contamination. « Le paludisme est l’une des principales causes de fièvre et de consultation en Guinée mais nos données suggèrent que les gens fiévreux ont évité les centres de soins par peur de contracter Ebola ou d’être envoyés dans des centres de traitement Ebola », note le Dr Plucinski.

Dans les districts guinéens touchés par l’épidémie Ebola, le nombre total des soignants a baissé d’un quart l’an dernier tandis que le nombre de ceux qui s’occupent du paludisme est tombé à moins de la moitié -contre deux tiers avant l’épidémie. Le nombre des patients recevant des traitements antipaludéens oraux a baissé de 24% (-30% pour les traitements injectables) pendant l’épidémie Ebola en 2014, par rapport à 2013. Le paludisme en quelques mots Le paludisme, aussi appelé malaria est une maladie infectieuse due à un parasite du genrePlasmodium, propagée par la piqûre de certaines espèces de moustiques anophèles. Avec 207 millions de personnes malades et 627 000 décès en 2012, le paludisme demeure la parasitose la plus importante et concerne majoritairement les enfants de moins de cinq ans et les femmes enceintes. 80 % des cas sont enregistrés en Afrique subsaharienne (cf. section détaillée : « Épidémiologie »).

Le parasite du paludisme est principalement transmis, la nuit, lors de la piqûre par une femelle moustique du genre Anopheles, elle-même contaminée après avoir piqué un individu impaludé. Le parasite infecte les cellules hépatiques de la victime puis circule dans le sang, en colonisant les hématies et en les détruisant. De nombreuses espèces animales homéothermes sont parasitées par des Plasmodiidae, qui leur sont inféodés ; l’humain ne peut être parasité par des Plasmodium animaux, exception faite du Plasmodium knowlesi. Sur les cent- vingt-trois espèces du genre Plasmodium répertoriées, seules quatre sont spécifiquement humaines : Plasmodium falciparum responsable d’une grande majorité des décès, et trois autres qui provoquent des formes de paludisme « bénignes » qui ne sont généralement pas mortelles Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale, et Plasmodium malariae.Plasmodium knowlesi que l’on croyait jusqu’à une date récente spécifique aux espèces simiennes est désormais à compter parmi les Plasmodiums affectant également les humains, de façon généralement bénigne également. (source wikipedia)

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Reliefweb

Le Partenariat Roll Back Malaria publie de nouvelles stratégies pour orienter les efforts mondiaux d’élimination du paludisme d’ici 2030

Date: 13/07

Country: USA, Kenya, Thailand

Un cadre stratégique pour l’investissement et l’action permettra de faire progresser le développement et de vaincre cette maladie meurtrière.

(10 juillet 2015; Nations Unies, Genève) Les dirigeants mondiaux qui se réuniront lors de la Troisième Conférence internationale sur le financement du développement international qui se tiendra à Addis-Abeba, Ethiopie le 13 juillet, examineront la nouvelle Stratégie technique mondiale contre le paludisme 2016- 2030 validée par l’Assemblée mondiale de la Santé et « Action et Investissement pour vaincre le paludisme » 2016-2030 (AIM) – pour un monde sans paludisme du Partenariat Roll Back Malaria. Ces deux documents offrent à la fois une assistance technique et un cadre d’action et d’investissement pour atteindre les objectifs ambitieux d’élimination du paludisme énoncés dans les prochains Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) des Nations Unies. Cette nouvelle vision globale sera officiellement lancée lors d’un événement spécial sur le financement du paludisme convoqué par S.E. le Premier Ministre Hailemariam Dessalegn de la République fédérale démocratique d’Éthiopie.

Grâce aux progrès de la lutte contre le paludisme atteints depuis l’an 2000, la mortalité due au paludisme a baisée de 58 % et plus de 6,2 millions de décès dus au paludisme ont été évités entre 2001 et 2015. Cependant, le paludisme demeure une cause et conséquence majeure de la pauvreté et de l’inégalité dans le monde entier. La maladie freine le développement économique, compromet la sécurité alimentaire empèche les enfants d’aller à l’école, et entrave la capacité des systèmes nationaux à répondre efficacement aux menaces à la securité sanitaire.

Lors de l’annonce de cette nouvelle vision globale, le Secrétaire général des Nations Unies, BAN Ki-moon a déclaré : “Atteindre les objectifs internationaux de lutte contre le paludisme de 2030 permettra non seulement de sauver des millions de vies, mais également de réduire la pauvreté et de créer des sociétés plus équitables regroupant des personnes en meilleure santé. Garantir une réduction et une élimination continue du paludisme produira des bénéfices pour des communautés entières, les entreprises, l’agriculture, les systèmes de santé et les familles. ” Le Secrétaire général a ajouté, “Transformer notre compréhension du formidable retour sur investissement que représente l’élimination des décès dus au paludisme en une action dynamique et efficace sur le terrain, sera une condition essentielle pour qu’un avenir où le droit à l’égalité et à la dignité que chaque être humain mérite, devienne réalité.”

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ONU Brasil

Onu e parceiros querem eliminar malária até 2030

Date: 10/07

Country: Brazil

A Parceria Roll Back Malaria lança novas estratégias para orientar os esforços globais para eliminar a malária até 2030. Apesar de ser completamente tratável e evitável, a OMS estimou que haverá 214 milhões de casos de infecção por malária em 2015, provocando a morte de aproximadamente 472 mil pessoas, em sua maioria crianças africanas menores de cinco anos.

No dia 13 de julho, líderes mundiais na Terceira Conferência Internacional sobre o Financiamento para o Desenvolvimento, em Adis Abeba (Etiópia) vão discutir a aprovação da nova Estratégia Técnica Global para Malária 2016-2030 pela Assembleia Mundial da Saúde e a Ação e Investimento para Eliminar a Malária até 2030 – por um mundo livre da malária, da Parceria Roll Back Malaria (RBM).

Juntos, esses documentos fornecem orientação técnica e um quadro para ação e investimento para atingir a meta ambiciosa de eliminação da malária delineados nos futuros Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) das Nações Unidas. Essa nova visão abrangente será lançada oficialmente durante um evento especial de financiamento para malária convocado pelo primeiro ministro da República Democrática Federal da Etiópia, Hailemariam Desalegn.

O progresso na luta contra a malária desde 2000 resultou na redução da mortalidade pela doença em 58% – com mais de 6,2 milhões de mortes por malária evitadas entre 2001 e 2015. No entanto, a malária continua sendo a principal causa e consequência da pobreza e da desigualdade mundial. Ela dificulta o desenvolvimento econômico, enfraquece a segurança alimentar, impede crianças de irem para escola, e retém a capacidade de resposta dos sistemas nacionais para responder efetivamente ameaças à segurança da saúde.

No lançamento dessa nova visão, o secretário-geral das Nações Unidas, Ban Ki- moon observou: “Alcançar nossos objetivos globais para a malária em 2030 não vai apenas salvar milhões de vidas, vai reduzir a pobreza e criar sociedades mais saudáveis e igualitárias. Assegurar a redução contínua e a eliminação da malária vai gerar benefícios para comunidades inteiras, para empresas, agricultura, sistemas de saúde e famílias”, disse Ban. “Transformar a nossa compreensão sobre o retorno do investimento pelo fim das mortes por malária em ação dinâmica e eficaz será essencial para perceber o futuro que queremos, onde todas as pessoas desfrutem da igualdade e dignidade que merecem”. O resultado de consultas mundiais a especialistas em regiões, países e comunidades afetadas, a complementação da Estratégia Técnica Global para Malária e os documentos da Ação e Investimento para Eliminar a Malária até 2030 compartilham o cronograma dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) e fornecem etapas para medir o progresso. Juntos, os documentos expõem as estratégias técnicas necessárias para continuar diminuindo o peso da malária, enquanto mapeiam o investimento e ações coletivas necessárias para atingir a meta de redução global da incidência de casos e mortes por malária em 90% até 2030 – comparado a 2015 – e eliminando a doença em 35 países adicionais.

“As novas metas da malária para 2030 – e os marcos estabelecidos em 2020 e 2025 nas estratégias da OMS e RBM – são ambiciosos porém possíveis”, disse o diretor do Programa Mundial de Malária da Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), Pedro Alonso. “Devemos acelerar o progresso para a eliminação da malária para garantir que nem a resistência do parasita aos medicamentos, nem a resistência do mosquito a inseticidas, nem o ressurgimento da malária, desfaçam os enormes ganhos até o momento. Podemos e devemos alcançar um impacto ainda maior para proteger o investimento que a comunidade global fez”. Apesar de ser completamente tratável e evitável, a OMS estimou que haverá 214 milhões de casos de infecção por malária em 2015, provocando a morte de aproximadamente 472 mil pessoas, em sua maioria crianças africanas menores de cinco anos. Mesmo com os progressos sem precedentes até então, mais da metade da população mundial mantém-se em risco de infecção por malária nos dias de hoje.

Financiamento e inovações adequadas e previsíveis para novas ferramentas serão fundamentais para expandir as intervenções e chegar no alvo da OMS/RBM de eliminação da malária. No documento de Ação e Investimento para Eliminar a Malária até 2030 da RBM, especialistas destacam que pouco mais de 100 bilhões de dólares são necessários para eliminar a doença até 2030, com um adicional de 10 bilhões de dólares necessários para financiar a pesquisa e o desenvolvimento de novas ferramentas, incluindo novas drogas e inseticidas. Para alcançar a primeira etapa de redução da taxa de incidência e mortalidade da malária em 40%, será necessário aumentar o investimento anual para malária em 6,4 bilhões de dólares até 2020. Enquanto o financiamento internacional e nacional total atingiu um pico de 2,7 bilhões de dólares em 2013, declínios atuais no financiamento do desenvolvimento internacional estão impactando a capacidade mundial em manter o progresso contra a malária. A aceleração em direção a eliminação da malária exigirá um maior financiamento por parte da comunidade internacional de doadores, bem como o aumento do financiamento interno por países afetados.

“O investimento para alcançar as novas metas de malária para 2030 vai evitar aproximadamente 3 bilhões de casos de malária e salvar mais de 10 milhões de vidas. Se somos capazes de alcançar essas metas, o mundo vai gerar 4 trilhões de dólares em produção econômica adicional entre o período de 2016-2030”, disse a diretora executiva da Parceria Roll Back Malaria, Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré. “Agora, mais do que nunca, devemos focar novamente os nossos esforços e comprometer novamente nossos orçamentos para que possamos continuar salvando vidas e para desbloquear o potencial econômico em comunidades ao redor do mundo”.

A um custo de 5-8 dólares por caso evitado, a malária tem continuamente provado ser um dos investimentos mais rentáveis na saúde pública, com investimentos relativamente baixos produzindo resultados elevados, mesmo para além do setor da saúde. E especialistas estimam que o retorno só vai continuar crescendo com os países começando a focar em metas de eliminação.

Nova análise da Ação e Investimento para Eliminar a Malária revela que o retorno mundial sobre o investimento de alcançar as metas de malária para 2030 é de 40:1, subindo para um nível sem precedentes de 60:1 para a África subsaariana. Isso reforça a evidência de que esforços contínuos para reduzir o fardo da malária têm o potencial de estimular o crescimento transformador e inclusivo.

A redução e eliminação da malária será fundamental para a conquista dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) e vai ajudar no avanço dos esforços de desenvolvimento em todos os setores, reduzindo a evasão escolar, combatendo a pobreza, aumentando a igualdade de gênero e melhorando a saúde materna e infantil.

Vidas salvas a partir de intervenções eficazes contra a malária têm sido associadas a uma redução de 20% em todas as causas de mortalidade infantil na África subsaariana desde 2000, enquanto esforços para prevenir a malária na gravidez têm evitado cerca de 95 mil mortes de recém-nascidos entre 2009 e 2012. Estes números representam uma geração inteira com a oportunidade de viver uma vida saudável e crescer como fortes e contribuintes membros da sociedade.

O documento completo AIM está disponível para download em: http://bit.ly/1G5NvnI

Contatos para a imprensa: Prudence Smith (inglês), Genebra Assessora de comunicação da RBM + 41 22 791 4586 (escritório); +41 79 477 1744 (celular) [email protected] Trey Watkins (ingles e espanhol), Nova York Oficial de relações externas da RBM +1 646 626 6054 (escritório); +1 347 931 0667 (celular) [email protected]

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Onu e parceiros querem eliminar malária até 2030

Date: 10/07

Country: USA

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Líderes mundiais vão debater o combate à doença na 3ª Conferência sobre Financiamento para o Desenvolvimento, na Etiópia; desde 2000 mundo conseguiu reduzir em 58% número de mortes causadas pela malária.

Edgard Júnior, da Rádio ONU em Nova York.

A Organização Mundial da Saúde, OMS, e a parceria Roll Back Malária, RBM, afirmaram que são necessários US$ 100 bilhões para eliminar a doença no mundo até 2030. Isso equivale a mais de R$ 320 bilhões. Além disso, relatório divulgado esta sexta-feira pela parceria cita a necessidade de US$ 10 bilhões ou R$ 32 bilhões adicionais para financiar pesquisas e o desenvolvimento de novos medicamentos e inseticidas.

Estratégias e Ações Líderes mundiais vão debater o combate à doença na 3ª Conferência sobre Financiamento para o Desenvolvimento, na Etiópia. Eles vão discutir a Estratégia Técnica Global para a Malária 2016-2030, aprovada durante a Assembleia Mundial de Saúde e a campanha "Ação e Investimento para Derrotar a Malária" da Parceria Roll Back Malária. Juntos, esses dois documentos fornecem um guia técnico e estratégias de ações e investimentos para alcançar as metas de acabar com a doença, incluídas na nova agenda de desenvolvimento sustentável pós-2015. Entre os objetivos estão a redução da incidência nos casos e mortes de malária em 90% comparados aos índices de 2015 e eliminar totalmente a doença de mais 35 países.

Casos e Mortes A Organização Mundial da Saúde calcula que o mundo vai registrar 214 milhões de casos de malária neste ano com aproximadamente 472 mil mortes. A maioria dos óbitos deve ocorrer entre crianças africanas com menos de cinco anos. O progresso na luta contra a malária tem sido visível. Desde 2000, houve uma redução de 58% nas mortes causadas pela doença, mais de 6,2 milhões de vidas foram salvas nos últimos 15 anos. Apesar disso, a OMS diz que a malária continua sendo a principal causa ou consequência da pobreza e da desigualdade no mundo. A doença impede o desenvolvimento, mina a segurança alimentar, não permite que as crianças frequentem a escola e absorve a capacidade dos sistemas nacionais de responderem de forma eficaz às ameaças de segurança de saúde.

Essenciais A diretora-executiva da parceria Roll Back Malaria, Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, afirmou que o investimento vai evitar quase 3 bilhões de casos da doença e salvar mais de 10 milhões de vidas até 2030. Ela disse que se a meta for alcançada, será possível também gerar uma receita econômica adicional de US$ 4 trilhões, quase R$ 13 trilhões, entre 2016-2030. O relatório deixa claro que a redução e a eliminação da malária serão essenciais para atingir os novos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável. Além disso, são importantes também para reduzir a ausência escolar, para combater a pobreza, para aumentar a paridade de gênero e para melhorar a saúde materna e infantil.

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Fátima Missionária

Mais investimento para um mundo sem malária

Date: 14/07

Country: Portugal

Apesar do enorme progresso feito nos últimos 15 anos, há necessidade de mais investimentos para atingir esta meta, afirmou Ban Ki-moon na Etiópia, onde os líderes mundiais se reuniram para discutir o financiamento do desenvolvimento.

«Estamos a chegar ao final de um período extraordinário na luta contra a malária», disse o secretário-geral da ONU num evento sobre o Financiamento para uma Nova Era da Malária, realizado à margem da Terceira Conferência Internacional sobre o Financiamento do Desenvolvimento.

Os participantes do evento em Addis Abeba, a capital etíope, discutiram a Estratégia Global que a nova Assembleia Mundial da Saúde aprovou para a malária, no período de 2016 a 2030, e a Parceria «Roll Back Malaria» por um mundo livre de malária, o primeiro plano de ação mundial contra o paludismo (AIM, na sigla internacional), para igual período.

A AIM baseia-se no sucesso do primeiro «Plano de Ação Global contra a Malária - por um mundo livre de malária», que serve como guia para a ação coletiva para todos aqueles comprometidos na luta contra a doença. E complementa a estratégia técnica global da Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS), posicionando a malária na agenda mais ampla do desenvolvimento.

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Arabic

UN News Center

اديس أبابا: هناك حاجة لزيادة االستثمارات، فيما تدخل مكافحة المالريا مرحلة حرجة

Date: 13/07

Country: USA

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على الرغم من التقدم الهائل الذي أحرز على مدى السنوات الخمسة عشرة — 2015/7/13 الماضية، هناك حاجة إلى استثمارات أكبر لتحقيق الهدف المتمثل في عالم خال من المالريا، حسبما أكد األمين العام لألمم المتحدة بان كي مون اليوم االثنين، في فعالية جانبية بشأن تمويل المالريا، .على هامش المؤتمر الدولي لتمويل التنمية في أديس أبابا، إثيوبيا

."نحن نقترب من نهاية فترة استثنائية في مجال مكافحة المالريا"وقال السيد بان كي مون،

والتي "االستراتيجية التقنية العالمية لمكافحة المالريا فيما بين 2016-2030"وناقش المشاركون أيدتها جمعية الصحة العالمية، وخطة عمل واستثمار شراكة دحر المالريا وهزيمتها فيما بين -2016 .2030 - من أجل عالم خال من المالريا

وتبني خطة العمل على نجاح أول خطة عمل عالمية لمكافحة المالريا - من أجل عالم خال من .المالريا، بوصفها دليال للعمل الجماعي لجميع العاملين في مجال مكافحة المالريا

وتقدم هذه الوثائق التوجيه الفني وإطارا للعمل واالستثمار لتحقيق أهداف القضاء على المالريا الواردة في أهداف التنمية المستدامة التي من المقرر أن تعتمدها الدول األعضاء في سبتمبر / أيلول .القادم

وشكر السيد بان رؤساء الدول ووزراء الصحة والمالية لما بذلوه من جهد وقيادة، وخاصة تحالف القادة األفارقة لمكافحة المالريا؛ ومنظمة الصحة العالمية؛ واالئتالف الكبير من الشركاء الملتزمين في إطار شراكة دحر المالريا؛ والعديد من الممولين الدوليين، بما في ذلك الصندوق العالمي لمكافحة اإليدز والسل والمالريا، والواليات المتحدة، والمملكة المتحدة، ومؤسسة بيل وميليندا جيتس، والبنك .الدولي

وإذ ننتقل إلى مجموعة جديدة من األهداف العالمية للتنمية المستدامة، لدينا "وقال األمين العام ."فرصة غير مسبوقة لوضع حد لخطر المالريا العالمي إلى األبد

نحن لدينا رؤية استراتيجية "وتابع في اشارة إلى الوثيقتين التي تمت مناقشتهما في االجتماع، للقيام بذلك. توفر الوثيقتان إطارا شامال لتوجيه جهود الحد من المالريا بنسبة 90 في المائة بحلول عام 2030. إن تحقيق ذلك سيستلزم مواصلة االستثمار من جميع البلدان، بما في ذلك تجديد كاف .لموارد الصندوق العالمي لمكافحة المالريا

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Spanish

Asociación de Médicos de Sanidad Exterior (AMSE)

Roll Back Malaria. Objetivos 2016-2030.

Date: 17/07

Country: Spain

Julio 2015. Roll Back Malaria. Objetivos 2016-2030. La organización “Roll Back Malaria” publica los hitos y objetivos en el control de la malaria para los años 2016-2030. http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/about/about-rbm/aim-2016-2030

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Italian

Africarivista

Africa – Oms: entro il 2030 il 90% in meno di morti di malaria

Date: 11/07

Country: Italy

L’Oms (Organizzazione mondiale della sanità) lancia un piano per ridurre del 90% i casi mortali di malari entro il 2030. Ma raggiungere questo ambizioso obiettivo richiederà più del doppio delle risorse attualmente destinate alla lotta contro la malattia. Eliminare la malaria è una impegnativo, perché non esiste ancora un vaccino efficace per prevenire la malattia (che viene trasmessa dal morso di una zanzara). Nonostante le difficoltà, Oms e Roll Back Malaria (piattaforma di coordinamento internazionale contro la malaria) si pongono come obiettivo la riduzione del 90% del numero di morti entro il 2030. Negli ultimi 15 anni, il tasso di mortalità è sceso del 58%, e ciò ha permesso di salvare oltre 6 milioni di persone. Nonostante questi progressi, la malaria causa ancora molte vittime. Secondo le stime, nel 2015, 214 milioni di persone potrebbero essere colpite da malaria e di questi, 472.000 moriranno. In particolare, bambini africani sotto i cinque anni che dovrebbero essere le principali vittime. L’Africa resta il continente più colpito, attualmente nove decessi su dieci si registrano nel continente.

(11/07/2015 Fonte: Jeuneafrique)

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Japanese

UN Information Centre

マラリア：より一層の投資を

Date: 13/07

Country: USA

新時代のためのマラリア対策資金調達に関するイベント、開催。潘基文事務総長

は参加、演説し、この15年間に大きな歩みがみられたものの、マラリアのない世 界を実現するためには、より一層の投資が必要であると訴えた。

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Dutch

Reliefweb

Le Partenariat Roll Back Malaria publie de nouvelles stratégies pour orienter les efforts mondiaux d’élimination du paludisme d’ici 2030

Date: 13/07

Country: Belgium

Een wereld zonder malaria is ook economisch een goede zaak. Alleen aan Afrika kost de ziekte jaarlijks al meer dan 10,7 miljard euro aan productieverlies.

Een wereld zonder malaria is ook voor de economie een goede zaak. Het kan minstens 4 biljoen dollar - 4 met twaalf nullen erachter - in het laatje brengen, zeggen de Verenigde Naties (VN). ...

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Bahasa

NRM News.com

"... KEMITRAAN Roll Back Malaria, LUNCURKAN Strategi BARU Upaya GLOBAL Pemberantasan MALARIA..."

Date: 14/07

Country: Indonesia

“…NRMnews.com – JAKARTA, PBB bersama pemerintah dunia, pada pertemuan ketigaPembiayaan Internasional untuk Pembangunan (FfD), telah mendiskusikan Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030 dan Action and Investment to defeat Malaria 2016-2030 (AIM) – for a malaria-free world besutan Kemitraan Roll Back Malari pada hari Senin (13/07/2015), di Addis Ababa, Etiopia.

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English

The Global Fund

Accelerating Domestic Investments in Health

Date: 13/07

Country: Switzerland

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Efforts to increase domestic investment in health programs have taken a prominent spot at the Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week. African leaders, including Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, addressed a session today focused on the need to invest more in health, attended by Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chair of the Africa Union Commission, and others. "African countries must find more ways to invest more into health," said Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. "This is fundamental. The transformation of our economies and our countries will never be complete without claiming victory over diseases." Several partners in global health spoke about the urgency and scale needed for greater investment. "To accelerate the end of these epidemics, global health partners must invest ambitiously," said Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the Global Fund. "We need to build resilient and sustainable systems for health, and we can only get there by sharing responsibility and working together." Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of UNAIDS, and Mustapha Sidiki Kaloko, Commissioner for Social Affairs at the African Union Commission, also addressed the meeting. Boosting domestic investments in health is a priority that was articulated by the Abuja Declaration of 2001, when African countries pledged to boost government funding for health to at least 15 percent of their annual budget. Many countries on the continent are yet to achieve that target. Still, a lot of progress has been made in domestic investments in health. For instance, Africa is mobilizing more domestic resources in health than foreign development investments. In the last four years, African countries have increased their domestic resources to respond to HIV by 150 percent. Failure to sustain and increase domestic finances would result in losing the historic opportunity to defeat diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, which are now in retreat. Besides increasing countries' ability to respond to diseases and outbreaks, increased domestic resources will foster country ownership and improve sustainability of country programs. At a gathering on 12 July, the Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) urged implementing countries to invest more vigorously in health, and also urged donor countries to commit more money to health in the next 15 years to accelerate gains against diseases. Yvonne Chaka Chaka, a musical star from South Africa and a Goodwill Ambassador for Roll Back Malaria, said that while international donors have a responsibility to continue investing in health, countries heavily burdened by diseases must take up ownership of managing diseases affecting their citizens. "When you are always asking for help, it diminishes your dignity," Chaka Chaka said. Maurine Murenga, a GFAN advocate, said that despite the great progress made in the last decade, there are still many quality health programs that remain unfunded. "Before we had better access to HIV treatment, we used to be supported to die gracefully, and to write wills to our children," she said. "Since I did not have property to leave my son, I wrote a letter apologizing for infecting him with HIV." "Now I have another son whom I got after accessing HIV treatment, who is HIV negative and whom I do not have to write that kind of letter. Unfortunately, there are still too many people who can't benefit from HIV treatment and prevention, like I did, because of lack of enough funding."

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Impatient Optimists

What’s It Like to Have Malaria in a Remote Area

Date: 13/07

Country: USA

In December 2014, Sanula Kabuya was woken by the sound of her great granddaughter’s laboured breathing. Jalia, the youngest of the five children, was three at the time. “Her whole body was so hot,” Sanula says. “She was really struggling to breathe. I knew I had to get Jalia to our village health worker [VHT] straight away.”

In 2011, at the start of Malaria Consortium’s Mbale Malaria Control Project, Mbale suffered the highest malaria burden in Uganda, with malaria the most common cause of death in children. Mbale district is a remote and rural area of eastern Uganda, and one of the project’s objectives was to train village health workers to be able to diagnose, treat and appropriately refer children with malaria. “Our VHT lives nearby, and it was clear that Jalia was very sick, so even though it was during the night I rushed Jalia to our nearest VHT, who is like a neighbour to me.”

“Our VHT saw straightaway that Jalia needed emergency treatment. She called a boda boda immediately,” Sanula says. The boda boda system, which is made up of a network of motorcycle taxi drivers trained as part of the project, is designed to transport sick children to nearby health facilities. VHTs give boda boda drivers vouchers, provided by the project.

“It was late at night, but the boda boda arrived very quickly, which was important as Jalia was so sick. She was still and breathing very slowly” Sanula says. “The boda boda rushed us to the nearest health facility. The journey would have taken me hours on foot, and it would have been treacherous to carry a sick child through the night. If there had been no boda boda, I would have been forced to wait until the morning to see if someone travelling toward the health facility would have been able to help Jalia.”

“Once we got to the health facility Jalia was treated as an emergency case. The doctors took her from me and they went to the admissions room. Very quickly she was diagnosed with malaria and anaemia, and this meant she needed an emergency blood transfusion. This took four hours in total.”

Jalia was in hospital for three more days after this, but Sanula couldn’t stay with her. “I had to go home and look after my other great grandchildren. Jalia’s mother died in a road accident shortly after Jalia was born, and her grandparents need to work.” Sanula takes care of all the siblings to help the family get by. “If I had not been able to get Jalia to a health facility, I would have had to take care of her at home and the rest of our family would have suffered.”

Jalia still remembers being in hospital. “It was scary. They wanted to give me an injection and that scared me a lot.” She said. “They put an injection in my arm and it really hurt,” Jalia says.

Funded by Comic Relief, the Mbale Malaria Control Project began in 2011 and had trained over 3,000 VHTs by the time it ended in 2015. The training of VHTs is a policy in line with new WHO and RBM malaria elimination strategies, which was released today at the 3rd International Financing for Development meeting in Addis Ababa.

Both the WHO’s Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030 (GTS) and RBM’s Action and Investment to defeat Malaria 2016-2030 (AIM) – for a malaria free world – will determine the future of malaria elimination and set the stage for a malaria-free world. One of GTS’ recommendations is the training of VHTs “in rural and remote areas, where health infrastructures tend to be the weakest and malaria transmission the highest.”

Malaria mortality levels have fallen in Mbale since the Malaria Consortium project started and less malaria means less under-five mortality, fewer days missed at school and work, more productive workforces and stronger economies. Projects such as the Mbale Malaria Control Project, which have included simultaneous interventions, help to bridge gaps between communities and public health services, which exist partly due to inadequate health worker skills and knowledge, and a lack of affordable means of transport following a referral. Cost-effective measures such as the use of boda boda drivers and communicating malaria preventive measures to communities in innovative ways, demonstrate that malaria interventions have proven to be among the most cost-effective public health interventions.

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Swiss TPH

New Strategies to Guide Global Malaria Elimination 2016- 2030

Date: 15/07

Country: Switzerland

On Monday 13th July world leaders convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development. Malaria elimination featured high on the agenda with H.E. Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Chair of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) and H.E. Madame Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, hosting a side session on financing malaria to encourage increased domestic and international support to achieve ambitious 2030 malaria goals. The United Nation’s Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Financing for the Health Related Millennium Development Goals, the Roll Back Malaria- Partnership and Malaria, No More co-organized the event.

Malaria Financing for a New Era: An Exceptional Case for Investment provided a platform to showcase the benefits of investing in malaria, highlighting the need for innovative approaches to increase funding, and accelerate progress. United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, flagged the unique opportunity provided by the Sustainable Development Goals: “As we move toward a new set of global goals for sustainable development, we have an unprecedented opportunity to put an end to the global threat of malaria once and for all".

Further Investment Needed to Fight Malaria Dr. Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the Global Fund, reinforced the importance of ensuring country-led approaches stating, “Countries must lead; domestic resources leverage international funds.” Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization and Dr Fatoumata Nafo Traoré, Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership presented the new Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-203, and the new Partnership document "Action and Investment to defeat Malaria 2016-2030 –(AIM) for a malaria-free world". Together these documents provide technical guidance, and the framework for investment and action for the achievement of the 2030 malaria goals. The AIM document was developed by Swiss TPH and Deloitte Consulting under the guidance of a Task Force of Experts.

For more information on AIM see: http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/about/about- rbm/aim-2016-2030

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Malaria Consortium

Malaria is one of the best "best buys" in Global Health

Date: 13/07

Country: United Kingdom

Op-ed by Dr James Tibenderana, Malaria Consortium Development Director, on the launch of two new malaria strategies

At this week’s 3rd International Financing for Development meeting in Addis Ababa, the World Health Organization (WHO), along with the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partnership present their 2015-2030 strategies during a financing for malaria side meeting.

Both strategies – WHO’s Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030 (GTS) and RBM’s Action and Investment to defeat Malaria 2016-2030 (AIM) – for a malaria free world – will be shaping the future of health development by saving more than 10 million lives and averting nearly 3 billion cases worldwide. Together, these documents chart the investment and collective actions needed to reach the 2030 malaria goals and reach a malaria-free world.

Malaria Consortium, UK’s leading malaria NGO and a partner of RBM, made a significant contribution to the development of the GTS: through the WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee of which our Technical Director Dr Sylvia Meek is a member, by sharing its technical expertise into online consultations and by translating evidence and learning of our work into practical advice for the strategy.

I am delighted to see both strategies highlight the huge health and economic benefits that result from investing in eliminating malaria while demonstrating malaria is one of the ‘best buys’ in Global Health. Meeting the 2030 malaria targets will generate more than US $4 trillion of additional economic output across the 2016-2030 timeframe.

Though the world has made dramatic progress – malaria mortality rates have decreased by 54 percent in Africa, much remains to be done. Nearly 300 million people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to a protective insecticide-treated net, and at least 15 million pregnant women do not receive the protective treatment they need to keep themselves and their unborn child healthy. Each year, malaria costs the African continent an estimated minimum of US $12 billion in lost productivity.

History demonstrates that maintaining gains made fighting malaria are dependant on sufficient and sustained investment. Since the 1930s, there have been 75 documented resurgences of malaria reported in 61 countries, the majority linked to reduced or suspended funding for malaria programmes.

We therefore call on governments, donors and partners to continue to work together – within and between sectors and across borders.

I am proud to see today’s event marks a milestone in global health history and the start of a new era in development.

Dr James Tibenderana, Malaria Consortium Development Director

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MMV

Action and Investment to defeat Malaria 2016-2030 (AIM) – for a malaria free world

Date: 16/07

Country: Switzerland

A report from the Roll Back Malaria Partnership that serves as both a call and a guide for collective action for all those engaged in the fight against malaria

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Action and Investment to defeat Malaria 2016–2030 (AIM) – for a malaria-free world builds on the success of the first Global Malaria Action Plan – for a malaria- free world , serving as both a clarion call and a guide for collective action for all those engaged in the fight against malaria. The result of an extensive consultative process, AIM complements the WHO Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016–2030 by positioning malaria in the wider development agenda. It illustrates how reducing and eliminating malaria creates healthier, more equitable and prosperous societies, and promotes a broadly inclusive and multisectoral response. Both documents share the 2016–2030 timeline of the Sustainable Development Goals, and provide direction towards the 2030 malaria goals.

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Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Malaria Financing: a key agenda item at the Financing Development Conference

Date: 16/07

Country: Switzerland

Reducing malaria is critical to achieving the global Sustainable Development Goals, and a key event held on the side line of the Financing Development Conference was a separate meeting on “Malaria Financing for a New Era: An Exceptional Case for Investment Financing for Development Conference”. At UNECA’s Africa Hall on Monday (July 13) the Forum was held under the global theme: “Action and Investment to Defeat Malaria 2016-2030: For a Malaria-Free World.” It was co-organized and facilitated by the Government of Ethiopia, the United Nations, the African Union, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and the African Leaders Malaria Alliance.

Ethiopian Prime Minister, the Chair of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance, Hailemariam Desalegn, said when opening the Forum that he believed the event - on financing for malaria elimination – was “coming at an opportune time, particularly as we transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).” The Prime Minister said great strides had been achieved in the long fight against malaria during the MDGs era, but he underlined that malaria deaths were still at “an unacceptable level.” The Prime Minister cautioned: “We need to redouble our efforts and move the fight against malaria to more ambitious targets.”

Reflecting on the commitment of the African continent to fight malaria, the Prime Minister said African Heads of State and Government had conducted a review and assessed the progress made and the challenges faced in the efforts to control HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at the Special Summit of the African Union held in Abuja, Nigeria, in July 2013. At the Abuja summit, the Prime Minister recalled Africa’s leaders had agreed to “prioritize the continent’s health concerns in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, as streamlined in the AU Agenda 2063,” which calls for the elimination of HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria in Africa once and for all. He added that Africa had also welcomed the Global Malaria Strategy set by the World Health organization (WHO,) targeting for a 90% reduction of malaria deaths by 2030. Prime Minister Hailemariam said that: “We take comfort that in the fight against Malaria, there is already commitment at the highest political levels. The existence of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance, which I chair, attests our commitment.” Underlining the importance of ensuring an effective method of tracking progress in the fight against the disease and putting in place a regular account of monitoring and surveillance mechanisms, the Prime Minister said one of the key lessons of malaria control was “to keep our eye on the ball.” He said African Leaders Malaria Alliance 2030 Scorecard towards Malaria Elimination was committed to support the tracking of progress.

The Prime Minister emphasized the far-reaching impact of malaria, including its great impact on African economies. The disease costs Africa at least 12 billion dollars in terms of lost productivity every year and thus contributes significantly to intensify the cycles of poverty and to limit overall economic development. The Prime Minister noted; “investing in the fight against malaria thus makes economic sense.” As Africans join hands in the fight against this scourge, the Prime Minister stressed the need to embrace new tools as they are developed and rolled out, as well as taking stock of the tools already available and also ensuring that they were properly utilized. This involves appropriate utilization of all necessary tools, including long-lasting insecticidal nets, indoor residue spraying, and larviciding operations. The Prime Minister said: “I encourage WHO to ensure that guidelines are issued for all the new tools that are developed.”

For all these processes, the Prime Minister underlined that one of the major challenges in the fight against the disease remained the inadequacy of the funds available for forging effective and efficient anti-malaria intervention packages. He, therefore, urged leaders, institutions and all other stakeholders in the value chain to address the gaps in resource finance. He also underlined the real need to enhance domestic resources and make sure that all available resources were effectively and efficiently utilized. The Prime Minister also laid great stress on the value and the importance of building a new form of Private-Public Partnership, anchored on “ a shared agenda where private sector investments in health are not viewed purely as philanthropy, but as key to business success.”

Expressing Ethiopia’s national commitment in the fight against malaria, Prime Minister Hailemariam said: “My government is highly committed to reverse the toll of malaria in Ethiopia and we are planning to launch Sub-National Malaria Elimination Strategy in the coming Ethiopian New Year.” He added: “We cannot afford the loss of so many lives and the constant drainage of our meager resources.” Irrespective of the multifold and competing needs of the country, the Prime Minister noted that Ethiopia was committed to mobilize adequate domestic resources over the coming years for the fight against malaria. By ending malaria, the Prime Minister emphasized the country would save lives. It would also boost its socio-economic development and make sure the return outweighed the investment cost. The task of ending malaria required: “our strong resolve to mobilize resources, sustain our political commitment, build capacity in our health system and strengthen our strategic partnerships,” the Prime Minister added. United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, noted that: “as we reach the final stage of the MDGs, the threat posed by malaria has been an all-time low.” He said fifty-five countries were now on track to reach the World Health Assembly target of a 75% reduction in their malaria burden by 2015. He, therefore, extended his thanks to the African leaders for their efforts, to the African Leaders Malaria Alliance, and its Chair, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, and to WHO and other committed partners and international donors, including the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis. “As we move to the SDGs,” said Ban Ki-moon “we now have an unprecedented opportunity to defeat malaria once and for all,” and the Secretary-General called for continued and greater commitment for global financing to remove the threat of malaria from “every child, every woman.”

The Chairperson of the Africa Union Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, mindful of the fact that over 4.3 million lives have been saved and that malaria mortality rates have declined by 54%, told the meeting that “the African continent is on the right path to malaria elimination.” At the same time, it was necessary to strengthen concerted efforts to formulate appropriate malaria control implementation programs and designing workable strategies to combat the disease on the road ahead. Similarly, reflecting on the significant achievements made so far, particularly by leaders in Africa, Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, emphasized that while “your achievement must be celebrated; it must also be continued!” Taking note of the fact that Africa is unfairly suffering from the disease, the Director-General underlined that it is incumbent upon the world to come up with viable strategies, appropriate tools and adequate funding to combat malaria: “As we go forward with the SDGs,” the Director-General said, “we must ensure both sustainable and predictive financing.” She concluded: “If we have to get the disease out of this planet, we must open our purse.”

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