The call was made recently during a press conference, marking the end of a follow-up study tour of Cameroon by some six Members of Parliament from Belgium, Spain, Finland, Romania, France, and Spain, journalists and the authorities of Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria (CCAM) at the CCAM headquarters in Bastos, Yaounde.

Talking to pressmen, Katia Della Faille, the MP of the Liberal Party in the Belgian Parliament, noted that the situation of malaria in Cameroon is on a decline, going by statistics presented to them in one of the health units in the South West Region of Cameroon.

According to the report about 57 percent of pregnant women benefited from free mosquito bed nets and intermittent malaria treatment in 2005, but regretted that some 30 percent of women who went to the health unit in 2008 could not get the treated bed nets, either because of unavailability or lack of funds.

According to Della, Belgium has increased her aid from about $15.9m in 2007 to about $16.7m this year and prays the money would be put into proper use.

She equally appreciated the enthusiasm with which government, NGOs and other groups work in synergy to stamp out the disease.

Heli Järvinen, a Green Party Member of Parliament of Finland, was concerned with the poor or unavailable data collection and presentation in Cameroon.

She said when there is unreliable data, the credibility of the action, particularly in the domains of management of funds, becomes doubtful.

"We need to be assured that our money is being used for the right purpose and properly, if not donor countries like ours may reduce or stop funding, for it would be easy for us to support nations that furnish us with clean and clear data on the fight of the diseases," the MP said

Heli revealed that Finland will this year roll out over one billion US dollars as development aid with at least half of the amount allocated to Africa.
While calling on Cameroon to improve on its database, she also recommended that the country should think of erecting a factory that will enable her produce treated mosquito bed nets locally.

Despite a non recognisable disease in their various countries, the European MPs, promised to persuade their governments to increase financial packages to Africa for the fight against malaria with the same urgency as HIV/AIDS.

According to the spokesperson, Rosa Fortuny Torroella, MP for the Liberty Group in Spain, there is need for them and other European countries to ensure that the fight against the malaria pandemic is included amongst the political agenda of their countries in order to make it more visible.

Before leaving Cameroon, the MPs had working sessions with stakeholders of National Roll Back Malaria Committee, UN Agencies, Embassies and others on development aid and division of labour. The parliamentarians traveled to rural communities to visit Global Fund malaria project at the grassroots in the South West region, met with MPs amongst other places.