Global Roadmap to End Malaria Launched at UN Summit
More than 4 million lives can be saved by 2015 if resources are scaled up, reports a new malaria elimination plan launched by members of the international community attending the UN Summit in New York on Sept. 25, 2008.

The Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP), developed by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, is the first-ever single comprehensive blueprint for global malaria control and elimination. It outlines strategies, costs, goals and timelines designed to build on the trajectory of recent successes in malaria control, moving towards full malaria control and beyond in countries across the globe. Heads of state and government, major agencies and private sector representatives, faith and civil society leaders have united behind this plan to ensure full coverage of malaria interventions by 2010 and to achieve near zero preventable malaria deaths by 2015 as a major step towards ultimately eradicating malaria.

View the full Global Malaria Action Plan
GMAP Launch Press Release
RBM notice on the GMAP launch
Backgrounder about the GMAP
Backgrounder about the RBM Partnership

WHO Releases World Malaria Report 2008
Geneva, 18 September 2008: - There were an estimated 247 million cases of malaria and 881 000 deaths from the disease in 2006, mostly among children in Africa, making it one of the world's leading killers. Yet the World Malaria Report – 2008 provides strong evidence that a renewed global assault on malaria, underway since the turn of the millennium, has been accelerating in the last few years. The report draws on reporting by countries, and on household surveys, to chart the global fight against malaria.
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World Leaders Commit Record Billions to Tackle Malaria
New York, September 25, 2008 – World leaders gathered today at the 2008 Millennium Development Goals Malaria Summit to endorse an ambitious new Global Malaria Action Plan and commit nearly $3 billion towards reducing the number of malaria deaths to near zero by 2015.
The funding commitments will support rapid implementation of the Global Malaria Action Plan, an unprecedented new strategy, which was launched today by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership with the broad support of a united malaria community.
View Kaiser Network webcast of the event
Additional information from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Highlights:
Le Figaro, 8.09.08: Oui, nous pouvons vaincre le paludisme !
Awa Marie Coll-Seck et Michel Kazatchkine expliquent que lutter contre la maladie est un investissement rentable pour la communauté internationale.

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