Malaria is, however, a disease that is preventable, treatable and curable.

Preventive action and intensification of the struggle against malaria and diarrhoeal diseases, in particular cholera

4. Urges malaria endemic countries to increase domestic resource allocation to malaria control

6. Stresses that the proclamation of the Decade will stimulate the efforts of African countries and the international community not only to roll back malaria worldwide, in particular in Africa where the burden is heaviest, but also to prevent its spread to previously malaria free areas

You don't always use them for that. People fish with them.

This team helps to identify, and fill gaps in the malaria prevention and control programme.

Priority was being given to malaria which was having a devastating impact and was a far more pressing issue in the Gambia than HIV AIDS, and to sensitizing communities to malaria prevention.

Combating HIV AIDS, malaria and other diseases

The National Safe Motherhood Programme focuses on the following strategic themes

The main causes of infant mortality continue to be malaria, acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea, malnutrition and vaccine preventable diseases.

Goal 6 Combat HIV AIDS, malaria, and other diseases

77. In response to the need to intensify the struggle against malaria, UNICEF, in collaboration with Governments, donor agencies and other partners, has escalated its effort in malaria prevention and control.

3. Appeals to the international community to ensure increased support for bilateral and multilateral assistance to combat malaria, including support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in order to assist in the development of sound national plans to control malaria in malaria endemic countries and their implementation in a sustained and equitable way that, inter alia, contributes to health system development

4. Appeals to the international community to work towards increased and sustained bilateral and multilateral assistance to combat malaria, including support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in order to assist States, in particular malaria endemic countries, to implement sound national plans to control malaria in a sustained and equitable way that, inter alia, contributes to health system development

Yet malaria is a preventable and treatable disease. The task of eliminating malaria, country by country, and eventually reaching global eradication, is underway.

Recalling the need to strengthen the prevention aspect in the fight against pandemics such as HIV AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria,

Such initiatives as the World Bank Booster Project, the United States Government's new international malaria initiative and the Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa hold the promise for increased funding to tackle a preventable disease.

With regard to the mobilization of resources to combat malaria, multilateral donors have mobilized to establish a malaria control support team.

Although much progress is being made in the fight against malaria, major interventions are still needed.

These include a malariometric survey to collect updated epidemiological information and quantify the level of malaria endemic in Somalia a knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and practices survey to collect information for malaria control and prevention actions and a drug sensitivity study to qualify a new malarial drug regimen for Somalia.

Malaria.

Disease prevention.

Alarmed that, according to the global Roll Back Malaria partnership, malaria annually causes more than 1 million preventable deaths, about 90 per cent of which are in Africa, that malaria is the leading cause of death in young children and that it causes at least 300 million cases of acute illness each year,

Alarmed that, according to the global Roll Back Malaria partnership, malaria annually causes more than one million preventable deaths, about 90 per cent of which are in Africa, that malaria is the leading cause of death in young children and that it causes at least 300 million cases of acute illness each year,

Alarmed that, according to the global Roll Back Malaria partnership, malaria annually causes more than one million preventable deaths, about 90 per cent of which are in Africa, that malaria is the leading cause of death in young children and that it causes at least 300 million cases of acute illness each year,

Combat HIV AIDS, malaria and other diseases until 2015

The previous system of a vertical approach to malaria prevention and control has been phased out, and the service responsible for it has been integrated into the basic health service delivery system in order to ensure sustainability and the effective prevention and control of malaria in general, and epidemics in particular.

Although no explicit mention is made of the provision of insecticide treated netting to protect humans against the bite of the mosquito that transmits malaria, such measures would also be necessary to combat the spread of that disease.

7. Calls upon Member States, in particular malaria endemic countries, to establish and or strengthen national policies and operational plans, aspiring to ensure that at least 80 per cent of those at risk of or suffering from malaria may benefit from major preventive and curative interventions by 2010, in accordance with the technical recommendations of the World Health Organization, so as to ensure a reduction in the burden of malaria by at least 50 per cent by 2010 and 75 per cent by 2015

(c) Report of the Secretary General on preventive action and intensification of the struggle against malaria and diarrhoeal diseases, in particular cholera (E 1998 20)

1. Welcomes the report of the Secretary General on preventive action and intensification of the struggle against malaria and diarrhoeal diseases, in particular cholera 2.

WHO is strengthening the integration of disease surveillance, prevention and control of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV AIDS.

Integrated disease control

Strengthening of community response to the HIV AIDS pandemic, malaria and other endemic diseases through information, awareness, education and mobilization programmes, with the Ministry of Health and Prevention, Hygiene and Sanitation, and national committees combating HIV AIDS and malaria.

3. Appeals to the international community to ensure that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria receives increased funding to support sound national plans to control malaria in endemic countries to be implemented in a sustained and equitable way that contributes to health system development

4. Appeals to the international community to work towards increased and sustained bilateral and multilateral assistance to combat malaria, including support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in order to assist States, in particular malaria endemic countries, to implement sound national plans to control malaria in a sustained and equitable way that, inter alia, contributes to health system development

8. Calls upon Member States, in particular malaria endemic countries, to establish and or strengthen national policies and operational plans, aspiring to ensure that at least 80 per cent of those at risk of or suffering from malaria may benefit from major preventive and curative interventions by 2010, in accordance with the technical recommendations of the World Health Organization, so as to ensure a reduction in the burden of malaria by at least 50 per cent by 2010 and 75 per cent by 2015

Acknowledging the efforts of the World Health Organization and other partners to fight malaria over the years, including the launching of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership in 1998,

Fifteen years!

3. Calls upon the international community to continue to support the Roll Back Malaria partner organizations, including the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, as vital complementary sources of support for the efforts of malaria endemic countries to combat the disease

The point is, of course, if you want to know about malaria, you ask a malaria expert.

According to a recent World Health Organization report, preventable disease, such as malaria, claims more lives than today's conflicts put together.

7. Stresses the importance of adopting national plans of action in conformity with the Global Malaria Control Strategy of the World Health Organization in countries where malaria is endemic

This year marks an important milestone in the African continent's efforts to combat malaria.

Disease Prevention and Control