Adoption of UN Resolution A/66/L.58 
Kuwait Invests in the Fight Against Malaria
Kuwait grants Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership Secretariat US $3 million to help coordinate global control efforts
12 September 2012, Geneva / Kuwait : - The State of Kuwait has pledged to contribute US$3 million to the global fight against malaria through a grant to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM) Secretariat. This contribution comes at the behest of His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to help coordinate the global response to a leading killer disease. In June 2012, the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development also committed US$1 million to the RBM Partnership Secretariat to support the global malaria fight.
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General Assembly Calls for Accelerated Efforts to Eliminate Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly Africa, by 2015, in Consensus Resolution
10 September 2012, New York, USA: - A United Nations Malaria Resolution, led by the Permanent Mission of the Democratic Republic of Liberia on behalf of the UN Africa Group, was adopted by the General Assembly yesterday. With guidance from the RBM Partnership, the recommendations in the resolution urge governments, together with United Nations agencies, private organizations and foundations to accelerate efforts to achieve by 2015 the targets set in Roll Back Malaria's Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The resolution recognizes the progress made in the fight against malaria and calls upon endemic and donor countries to increase predictable resources for malaria and scale-up control programs. More than $3 billion is needed annually to bridge the current funding gap and implement the GMAP.
More info on "Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2015" [in English] [in French]
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