World Malaria Day: Mobilising to Save Lives
25 April 2008
Malaria Consortium, the International Business Leaders' Forum, the Nigerian Organisation of Women and the Trades Union Congress jointly organised an event at the Trades Union Congress building, entitled "World Malaria Day in the UK: Mobilising to Save Lives". The event was chaired by Andrew Jack from the Financial Times and the panel of speakers were invited to discuss how their respective stakeholder groups worked in malaria, mobilised against malaria and could connect better with each other. Attendance was approximately 85 people.
The panel comprised of:
- Stephen O'Brien MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria, ShadowMinister for Health and Member of Parliament for Eddisbury (Cheshire)
- Gail Cartmail, TUC General Council and Assistant General Secretary of Unite the Union (Amicus section). To read speech, click here
- Martha Osamor, Chairperson, Nigerian Organisation of Women & African Women's Welfare Association. To download presentation, click here (1.5 MB)
- Justine Frain, VP Global Community Partnerships, GSK . To download slides, click here (3.2 MB) or full speech, click here
- Edwin Nichols, Global Constituency Manager, World AIDS Campaign . To download presentation, click here (2.5MB).
and was followed by a Q&A and lunch. A communique was signed by the participants, expressing their commitment to a malaria free world and a joint press release was sent out from the organisers.
To view the MC statement released on World Malaria Day, click here.
A World Malaria Day folder was distributed to all participants with the following items:
- Factfiles: Malaria (1MB), Malaria & Poverty (1MB), Malaria & HIV (2.1MB), Malaria & Right to Health (2.5 MB)
- World Malaria Day in the UK flyer
- On the individual organisers
- About the Organisers
- AWWA flyer
- IBLF - Flyer and MDG & Business publication
- Malaria Consortium - MC brochure (778 KB) & European Alliance Against Malaria flyer (541 KB)
