The UK Coalition against Malaria is an alliance of UK based civil society organisations, individuals and political actors concerned about malaria. The Coalition works to secure an effective and sustained response to malaria through advocacy, policy analysis, community mobilisation, networking and information sharing.
NEWS
Global Roadmap To End Malaria Launched At UN Summit
NEW YORK / GENEVA, 25 Sept 2008 (RBM Partnership) – More than 4 million lives can be saved by 2015 if resources are scaled up, reports a new malaria elimination plan today, launched by members of the international community attending the UN Summit in New York.
World leaders commit record billions to tackle malaria
Funding to support ambitious new Global Malaria Action Plan to reduce malaria deaths in Africa to near zero by 2015
£50m to tackle tropical diseases
A £50 million boost to combat diseases like Aids, TB and malaria has been announced by International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander.
Extracts from Gordon Brown's speech to Labour Party Conference 2008
Extracts from Gordon Brown's speech to Labour Party Conference 2008 related to International Development & Malaria.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION PROVIDES UPDATED MALARIA SITUATION
Geneva – A new report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) finds that the global burden of malaria remains enormous, but that access to malaria control interventions, especially bed nets in Africa, increased sharply between 2004 and 2006, the period covered in the report.
U.S. Senate Passes Lantos/Hyde AIDS, TB, and Malaria Bill
In a tremendous step in the fight against malaria, the U.S. Senate passed the Lantos/Hyde Leadership Against AIDS, TB, and Malaria Act of 2008. The $48 billion legislation enhances U.S. global AIDS programs through improved policies, formalizes the President’s Malaria Initiative and calls for increased commitment to stopping the spread of tuberculosis.
Bill Clinton aims to stabilize malaria drug prices
Former President Clinton's foundation has signed pricing agreements with several suppliers involved in making a malaria-fighting drug in an effort to stabilize the medication's fluctuating costs and ensure more dependable availability.
The former president in 2002 established an HIV/AIDS initiative that sought to negotiate lower prices for antiretroviral treatments, and he since has expanded his focus to include malaria treatments such as artemisinin-based combination therapies, or ACTs.
European Malaria Alliance Welcomes G8 Commitments on Aid for Africa and Promises on Malaria
European malaria advocates welcomed the reaffirmation by the G8 of their pledge of $60 billion for aid to Africa at the Hokkaido Summit in Japan (7-9 July 2008), and applauded the focused attention that G8 leaders gave to tackling malaria.
Statement to the G8 - APPMG Malaria Control Statement July 2008: Focus on Delivery to Achieve Sustained Impact
Statement released July 2008. Opening extract below:
The UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria was launched in 2005 and has held regular presentations and debates dedicated to promoting control of malaria, which exerts a huge burden on the health and economy of developing countries. We argue that much of this burden is avoidable simply by applying existing tools with more determination
Launch of Healthy Aid: policy report of Action for Global Health
Action for Global Health has today published a new report, HEALTHY AID, calling on Europe to ensure that development assistance for health is both increased and provided in better ways, in order to ensure the Millennium Development Goals can be achieved. Published simultaneously in Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Madrid and London in five languages, the report outlines recommendations that EU leaders will need to advance, both in their own policies and at major international events this year which are intended to renew the development aid landscape.
Council of the European Union adopts ambitious MDG agenda for action!
The EU is planning to contribute to 75 million more bednets in Africa, through additional funding for national plans, including through International Health Partnership and in the framework of the “Providing for Health Initiative”. The EU will also further support the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, as well as UNITAID.
Day of the African Child - The EU must tackle Malaria to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
LONDON 16 JUNE 2008: As the global community commemorates the Day of the African Child, the figures show the alarming fact that one child dies every thirty seconds of malaria in Africa.
Blair launching a "faith foundation" in New York & one of its first priorities will be to fight the spread of malaria
Former prime minister Tony Blair is launching a "faith foundation" in New York on Friday. His foundation will attempt to bring religions together to tackle global issues such as the UN's eight Millennium Development Goals, which range from eradicating extreme poverty to ensuring environmental sustainability.
One of its first priorities will be to fight the spread of malaria.
MEDIA
Day of the African Child - The EU must tackle Malaria to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
LONDON 16 JUNE 2008: As the global community commemorates the Day of the African Child, the figures show the alarming fact that one child dies every thirty seconds of malaria in Africa.
Despite some progress in reducing child mortality as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), each year hundreds of thousand of children continue to die from this preventable and curable disease. “Malaria is one of the great obstacles to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, namely in reducing child and maternal mortality (MDG 4 & 5)”, said Dr. Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Executive Director of Roll Back Malaria. Indeed, in spite of the EU’s political will to achieve the MDGs and the highest level of global funding to date, the funding gap for malaria persists - $1 billion per year is available today whereas $3 billion a year is needed to control malaria by 2015. In addition, although tools and strategies which work well to control malaria exist, many people, particularly children, are still not being reached by delivery systems.
Three days before the European Council meeting on June 19th/20th, the European Alliance Against Malaria calls for the European Union Member States to fulfil their financial commitments to achieve the health related Millennium Development Goals by reaching agreement on the ambitious EU MDG Action Plan and by establishing timetables for providing more, better and faster aid.
UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Health Calls on All Actors to Fulfil their Human Rights Duties in the Fight against Malaria
London, Tuesday 11 December 2007 - Yesterday, on Human Rights Day, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Professor Hunt, called for urgent monitoring and accountability and better coordination from all parties - developing and developed states, the international community, and the private and public actors, including pharmaceutical companies - to ensure the "Right to the highest attainable health" for all, and to fight malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that kills more than 1 million people every year.
Malaria Consortium Supports Launch of Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria in new Report
London, Thursday 22nd November 2007. Today the All Party Parliamentary Malaria Group publishes a report on a new mechanism aimed at making malaria treatment affordable in the developing world. This new mechanism aims to increase access to life saving artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) by reducing the cost of the drugs to patients in poor countries who need them.
NEW INNOVATION GRANTS BOOST MALARIA ADVOCACY EFFORTS IN AFRICA
London, 5/11/07. Malaria Consortium announced today three grants for malaria advocacy to civil society organisations covering twelve African countries.
