At the Roll Back Malaria reception held at UNICEF House, from left: Roll Back Malaria External Relations Manager Hervé Verhoosel, UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha Rose Migiro, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman and Joyce C. Kafanabo, Minister Plenipotentiary, Permanent Mission of Tanzania to the United Nations.
Partners praised on new UN resolution on malaria, focus on next steps
At a reception held at UNICEF headquarters in New York, UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman, UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha Rose Migiro as well as key members of the RBM Partnership praised a new Resolution on the global malaria response that was adpted by the UN General Assembly.
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UN DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S REMARKS ON THE OCCASION OF
THE ADOPTION OF THE NEW RESOLUTION
“A DECADE TO ROLL BACK MALARIA”
THE ADOPTION OF THE NEW RESOLUTION
“A DECADE TO ROLL BACK MALARIA”
Excellencies,
Colleagues,
Time and again we hear that basic health is essential to economic prosperity. Yet countless poor people continue to suffer and die from diseases that can be prevented or treated.
Malaria is a case in point: Three million people contract the disease every year, yet effective prevention exists. One million die from it, yet treatment exists.
Malaria continues to burden economies, health systems and communities in many countries.
Dear Friends,
We know how to stop the deaths and suffering caused by Malaria. But it will take all of us working together.
Over the past decade, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership has evolved into a global movement. A movement that includes hundreds of partners from malaria-endemic countries, multilateral development organizations, the private sector, NGOs, foundations, and research institutions.
Let me give you just three examples of what the Roll Back Malaria Partnership is doing to support countries to reverse all these needless deaths and suffering:
First, coordination and harmonization: The Partnership has come up with a single roadmap for global malaria control and elimination. All partners are aligning their work to this Global Malaria Action Plan.
Second, integration: The malaria community has joined with others to develop integrated models for delivery of health services. When free mosquito bed-nets were distributed during immunization campaigns against polio, more mothers were willing to walk long distances to have their children vaccinated; and
Colleagues,
Time and again we hear that basic health is essential to economic prosperity. Yet countless poor people continue to suffer and die from diseases that can be prevented or treated.
Malaria is a case in point: Three million people contract the disease every year, yet effective prevention exists. One million die from it, yet treatment exists.
Malaria continues to burden economies, health systems and communities in many countries.
Dear Friends,
We know how to stop the deaths and suffering caused by Malaria. But it will take all of us working together.
Over the past decade, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership has evolved into a global movement. A movement that includes hundreds of partners from malaria-endemic countries, multilateral development organizations, the private sector, NGOs, foundations, and research institutions.
Let me give you just three examples of what the Roll Back Malaria Partnership is doing to support countries to reverse all these needless deaths and suffering:
First, coordination and harmonization: The Partnership has come up with a single roadmap for global malaria control and elimination. All partners are aligning their work to this Global Malaria Action Plan.
Second, integration: The malaria community has joined with others to develop integrated models for delivery of health services. When free mosquito bed-nets were distributed during immunization campaigns against polio, more mothers were willing to walk long distances to have their children vaccinated; and
Third, financing: Roll Back Malaria has directly helped countries to leverage unprecedented international funding to fight malaria. The partnership is also working to make sure that malaria medicines are affordable.
Partner support to deliver large-scale interventions [mosquito nets, insecticide spraying inside houses, and effective medicines] has helped slash malaria rates by more than sixty percent in countries such as Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Swaziland, Zambia, as well as Zanzibar Islands in the United Republic of Tanzania and others.
All these examples show how a partnership for a specific disease delivers broad health and development gains and relieves overstressed health systems.
Indeed, challenges remain to achieving the Roll Back Malaria 2010 targets and fulfilling the Secretary-General's call for universal coverage for everyone in need of malaria interventions.
The most daunting challenge that must concern all of us is to sustain our focus and financing for malaria and other major diseases.
Partner support to deliver large-scale interventions [mosquito nets, insecticide spraying inside houses, and effective medicines] has helped slash malaria rates by more than sixty percent in countries such as Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Swaziland, Zambia, as well as Zanzibar Islands in the United Republic of Tanzania and others.
All these examples show how a partnership for a specific disease delivers broad health and development gains and relieves overstressed health systems.
Indeed, challenges remain to achieving the Roll Back Malaria 2010 targets and fulfilling the Secretary-General's call for universal coverage for everyone in need of malaria interventions.
The most daunting challenge that must concern all of us is to sustain our focus and financing for malaria and other major diseases.
Together we can help save lives in every endemic country and community. At a time when the health of the economy is a shared preoccupation, I invite you to consider the economic value of partnerships.
We have momentum, let's keep going forward.
Thank you.
We have momentum, let's keep going forward.
Thank you.
TANZANIA IMEJIINGIZA ZAIDI KWENYE BIASHARA YA VYANDARUA KIASI SASA HATA MATANGAZO YA BIASHARA HIYO YANASISITIZA UZALISHAJI WA MBU ILI TUNUNUEA VYANDARUA! INASIKITISHA SANA KUONA VIONGOZI WETU WAMEJITUMBUKIZA KWENYE BIASHARI HII. UKWELI BILA KUUA MAZALIA YA MBU VYANDARUA SIYO SULUHISHO KAMA MATANGAZO YANAVYOSEMA.
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