African governments petitioned on Malaria

  1. Posted on Monday 27 April 2009 - 10:12
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    Mugira, AfricaNews reporter in Kampala, Uganda
    The UNs Millennium Campaign is calling on African states, civil society organizations and the private sector to allocate more resources into the treatment of malaria as agreed in the 2000 Abuja declarations. African heads of states pledged to halve the Malaria mortality of African people by 2010.
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    Yet with just one year left to the deadline, malaria remains one of the leading health hazards in Africa.

    The 2008 World Malaria report indicates that malaria claimed 881,000 lives in 2006, of which 91% (801,000) were in Africa, 85% were children under 5 years of age while half a billion of the African population became ill and unable to work.

    Now, with this current situation of people dying in avoidable circumstances and in big numbers, the UN Millennium Campaign, through a news release, calls upon African leaders to keep their promises and free African people from the scourge of malaria.

    The 2008 World Malaria report said only a drastic and expanded access to core anti malaria interventions (protective nets, diagnostic and effective drugs) will result in a sharp decline in malaria death and cases. This is exactly what the heads of states pledged during the Abuja declaration in 2000.

    “We call upon African governments to deliver on their Abuja pledges by committing more funds to the Roll Back Malaria plan and reverse incidences of people dying under circumstances that are avoidable.” The UN Millennium Campaign deputy director for Africa Dr Tajudeen Abdul-raheem urges in a news statement.

    “With government will and civil society effort, children will be given the chance to leave --- Without the will, and effort, more children and pregnant mothers will continue to die painfully, slowly and needlessly.”

    Reversing the incidence of malaria is among the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations in 2000, which aim to halve extreme poverty by 2015.

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