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International Development Journalism Competition 2010 Launched

Mar 3rd, 2010

London, 3rd March 2010: Malaria Consortium is joining the Guardian for the third annual International Development Journalism Competition, which launched today.

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APPMG Launches New Report on Malaria Elimination

Feb 26th, 2010

London, 26 February 2010: The All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG) has published a new report which attempts to ‘take stock’ of progress on malaria control.

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'Malaria: Blood Sweat and Tears' - a photo exhibition previewed in the NY Times

Feb 22nd, 2010

Elements of a UN photo exhibition Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears were previewed in the ‘Week in Review’ section of the New York Times.

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Abu Dhabi Awards $25 million to Roll Back Malaria Partnership

Feb 11th, 2010

London, 11 February 2010: The Abu Dhabi Government announced this week that it has awarded a five-year grant of US$25 million to support the work of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM) to scale-up malaria control worldwide and contribute to achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.

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Malaria Consortium 2008-9 Annual Review Launch

Feb 4th, 2010

London, 4 January 2010: Yesterday evening saw the launch of Malaria Consortium’s 2008-9 Annual Review at a reception in Westminster.

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NEWS: African Leaders Meet to Advance the UN's Malaria Control Agenda

Feb 2nd, 2010

London 2 February 2010: African leaders met in Ethiopia yesterday to convene the first working session of the African leaders malaria Alliance (ALMA) to confront the ongoing challenges of meeting the United Nations target of ensuring universal access to malaria control measures across the continent by the end of this year.

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NEWS: GSK is to reveal previously confidential data on thousands of potential anti-malaria compounds

Jan 29th, 2010

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the world’s second biggest drug company, is to reveal previously confidential data on thousands of potential anti-malaria compounds.

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NEWS RELEASE: Malaria Consortium receives $10 million grant

Jan 13th, 2010

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant will go towards improving the performance of community health workers to treat children with Diarrhoea, Pneumonia and Malaria in Africa.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium photographer wins award

Dec 18th, 2009

William Daniels, a professional photographer who has covered the work of Malaria Consortium twice in Africa, has been awarded the 2009 Photo Philanthropy Excellence Prize

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NEWS: WHO releases new malaria report

Dec 15th, 2009

London, 15 December 2009: International funding for malaria has increased dramatically from US$35 million in 2000 to $652 million in 2007, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) released today.

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NEWS: The MDGs: more than realising Rights

Dec 11th, 2009

London 11 December 2009: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are linked to the realisation of human rights, but they are also simply the right thing to aim for because we share a common sense of humanity and an interest in the elimination of poverty.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium Response to the United Nations Resolution on Malaria

Dec 10th, 2009

London 10 December 2009: Malaria Consortium welcomes the United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/64/L.28 2001-2010: A Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa.

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NEWS: Comic Relief Celebrities Kick Start Distribution of Mosquito Nets to Every Household In Western Uganda

Dec 2nd, 2009

London 2 December 2009: Five celebrities - Ben Shephard, Chris Moyles, Fearne Cotton, Gary Barlow and Kimberley Walsh - are visiting Uganda to lend their direct support to the start of a mass mosquito-net distribution campaign to help save the lives of thousands of children in Western Uganda.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium Receives Grant for Integration of Malaria-Helminth Control through Uganda Health System

Nov 26th, 2009

London, 26 November 2009: Malaria Consortium, in collaboration with the Vector Control Division (Ministry of Health, Uganda) and the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, has been awarded a grant of $45,000 by the Izumi Foundation to support the integrated control of malaria and helminths (intestinal worms and bilharzia) through Uganda’s health system.

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NEWS RELEASE: A Strategic Investment in Malaria Advocacy Brings Major Returns

Nov 26th, 2009

Supporting small scale, community-led advocacy efforts is an extremely cost-effective way of raising local political awareness to ensure government commitment in the fight against malaria. This is the main conclusion of Malaria Consortium’s second Mobilising4Malaria (M4M) case study.

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NEWS: APPMG Report Calls for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases

Nov 26th, 2009

London 26 November 2009: A new report launched by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG) highlights the tragic burden of some of the world’s most debilitating and neglected tropical diseases (NDTs) and calls for concerted action from the international community to help control and ultimately eliminate them.

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NEWS RELEASE: Resistance to Malaria Drugs Spreading in SE Asia

Nov 20th, 2009

London, 20 November 2009: Despite increased investment in malaria control demonstrating dramatic success, with the latest artemisinin-based drug combinations proving highly efficient as both treatment and defence against resistance by the malaria parasite, there are new indications that resistance to artemisinin-based drugs, already confirmed in Thailand and Cambodia, is beginning to crop up elsewhere in the Southeast Asia region.

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NEWS: Integrated Vector Management Is The Way Forward

Nov 19th, 2009

The first World Health Organisation Integrated Vector Management (IVM) stakeholders' meeting was held in Geneva this week, where participants developed a roadmap aimed at strengthening evidence-based decision-making for new initiatives in vector control.

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NEWS: Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria Receives Global Fund Project Approval

Nov 12th, 2009

London, 11 November 2009: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved a proposal to expand malaria control across all those at risk from the disease in Cameroon. Malaria Consortium’s partner and affiliate, the Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria (CCAM), will manage the advocacy component of the project.

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NEWS: The Global Fund Awards up to $1.3 Billion for Malaria Projects

Nov 12th, 2009

London, 12 November 2009: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved 17 out of 31 malaria proposals, a total of $609 million over two years and up to $1.3 billion over five years.

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NEWS: UK Malaria Community Meet to Discuss 2010 and Beyond

Nov 11th, 2009

While there have been considerable reductions in malaria deaths in endemic countries and the burden of malaria has been lifted for many, it is critical that the malaria community continues to look beyond 2010 towards what is still a large, unfinished agenda.

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NEWS RELEASE: $100 Million to Fight Malaria

Nov 6th, 2009

London, 6 November 2009: Malaria Consortium, the world’s leading non-profit organisation dedicated to the control and prevention of malaria, has been appointed to help implement a new USAID net distribution project worth up to $100 million across Africa.

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NEWS: 5th MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference

Nov 5th, 2009

Malaria Consortium joins 1,500 scientists, policymakers, health care workers, community members, and other experts at a conference in Nairobi this week to highlight new research on malaria.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium at MIM 2009 - Evaluation of Distribution Strategies for Universal ITN Coverage

Nov 3rd, 2009

Nairobi 3 November 2009: There is urgent need for the malaria community to understand better the potential of various insecticide treated net (ITN) distribution strategies in Africa, given the shift of focus away from pregnant women and children to more sustained universal coverage.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium at MIM 2009 - Community Health Workers: Are They Getting the Diagnosis Right?

Nov 3rd, 2009

Nairobi, 3 November 2009: Many malaria-endemic countries realise the importance of home management of malaria in rural settings to reduce mortality in children. However, there are concerns about blood-safety and accuracy of diagnosis when community health workers use malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs). Malaria Consortium reveals research findings to show whether these concerns are justified.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium on Radio France

Nov 3rd, 2009

Malaria is an incredible burden on Africa; it is one of the biggest causes of mortality in children under the age of five. Pregnant women are also particularly vulnerable to the disease. Yet it is a disease that is both preventable and curable.

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NEWS: SEARO Meeting on Malaria

Nov 2nd, 2009

Bangkok, 2 November 2009: Last week, the World Health Organisation Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO) convened a Regional Consultation on Integrated Approach to Malaria Control in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Malaria Consortium, which has offices in Thailand and Cambodia, attended the meeting.

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NEWS: The Global Fund Announces Massive Funding to End Malaria in Nigeria

Oct 27th, 2009

London 27 October 2009: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) has signed an agreement representing its largest single malaria initiative with the Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria, providing resources for 30 million insecticide treated nets (ITNs).

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NEWS: New Tool Allows Integrated Mapping of Neglected Tropical Diseases

Oct 27th, 2009

London, 27 October 2009: Research undertaken by Malaria Consortium and published today in the high profile journal Public Library of Science Neglected Tropical Diseases, shows it is possible to survey major tropical diseases simultaneously, thereby effectively reducing the time and money required to identify and treat areas of greatest burden.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium at the UK party political conferences 2009

Oct 14th, 2009

During September and October Malaria Consortium and attended the UK party conferences. In the run up to the next general election these conferences presented a key opportunity for the organisation to influence UK policy makers on international development, global health and malaria in particular.

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EVENT: Malaria Consortium/Financial Times host breakfast on economics of fighting malaria

Oct 7th, 2009

London: Malaria Consortium, co-hosted with the Financial Times (FT), a highly successful breakfast briefing today, focusing on The Economics of Fighting Malaria. The event attracted participants from among the corporate sector, as well as representatives from business associations and interested individuals.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium Warns Against Short Term Fixes

Oct 5th, 2009

Even if 2010 net coverage targets are reached, will it be enough? London: Malaria Consortium, the world’s leading NGO dedicated to the control of the disease, is concerned that while 2010 target for universal mosquito net coverage in Africa is extremely important, it has been oversimplified.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium launches African Coalitions Against Malaria case study

Oct 2nd, 2009

Today Malaria Consortium is launching the "African Coalitions Against Malaria" case study.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium featured on CNN's Inside Africa programme

Sep 28th, 2009

SuNMaP, a £50 million DFID funded project led by Malaria Consortium in Nigeria, is highlighted on CNN International

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NEWS: African Leaders Form Alliance to Accelerate Malaria Eradication

Sep 24th, 2009

African Leaders have launched a new high-level initiative to push ahead on the global commitment to protect all those at risk from malaria in Africa by the end of 2010, with the aim of ending unnecessary deaths from the disease by 2015.

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NEWS RELEASE: UK Drive to rid Nigeria of Malaria

Aug 31st, 2009

A new UK-backed campaign, managed by Malaria Consortium, to rid Nigeria of malaria and distribute over 63 million lifesaving bednets launched its second phase in the north of the country today.

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NEWS: WHO Director General Dr Margaret Chan visits Malaria Consortium Uganda

Aug 23rd, 2009

Malaria Consortium was delighted to host a visit in August by Dr Margaret Chan, Director General of WHO, Dr Takada Yamada from the Gates Foundation and UN Special Envoy on malaria, Ray Chambers to its integrated malaria control project Busiro North, Uganda. The visit came as part of the delegation’s tour of Uganda’s progress on malaria prevention, control and treatment.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium distributes close to a million nets in South Sudan.

Aug 19th, 2009

Malaria Consortium is in the process of handing out over 800,000 mosquito nets in Southern Sudan in order to save lives in one of the world’s most deprived regions.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium and RBM

Aug 5th, 2009

Malaria Consortium selected to be the secretariat of the Roll Back Malaria Case Management Working Group in Geneva, responsible for addressing the key challenges of malaria case management globally.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium at forefront of South East Asia malaria resistance containment efforts

Jul 28th, 2009

We are rapidly responding in order to contain the spread of resistant parasites on the Thai-Cambodian border

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NEWS: Care by Design chooses Malaria Consortium as 'Charity of the Year'

Jul 23rd, 2009

Care by Design, a medical consultancy firm, has chosen Malaria Consortium to be their Charity of the Year 2009/2010. The director of Care by Design, Angela Nisbet, will be working with Malaria Consortium's fundraising team to raise funds to fight malaria. www.carebydesign.org

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium compliments the Conservative party pledge on malaria

Jul 13th, 2009

Malaria Consortium compliments the Conservative party pledge to spend at least £500 million per year tackling malaria until the Millennium Development Goal on malaria has been met, as outlined in their newly published International Development green paper.

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NEWS: Malaria Consortium reaction statement to DFID announcement

Jul 3rd, 2009

Malaria Consortium compliments the UK Government for its support in the drive for malaria elimination.

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NEWS RELEASE: New report assesses whether the G8 are leading malaria efforts, or lagging behind

Jul 2nd, 2009

2 JULY 2009, LONDON: On the eve of the G8 Summit, and ten years after the Group of Eight made concrete commitments to tackle malaria, the European Alliance Against Malaria (EAAM) launches a report that investigates whether their promises have been kept.

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NEWS: New UK Drive to End Malaria Deaths

Jul 2nd, 2009

An additional 30 million bed nets, the development of life-saving new treatments and new funding to increase access to anti-malarial drugs are announced today in a package of measures by International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander, as the UK continues its fight to rid the world of malaria.

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NEWS RELEASE: An historic health campaign in Nigeria – millions of bed nets distributed to prevent malaria deaths

Jun 19th, 2009

Over 60 million long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) are being distributed to every household in Nigeria, protecting millions of lives from malaria. This comprehensive nationwide effort represents an unprecedented opportunity to address one of Nigeria’s biggest health problems.

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NEWS RELEASE - New report launched on Day of the African Child unveils next steps for EU in fight against malaria

Jun 16th, 2009

London, UK: A new report has launched today on the progress made by EU member states in the effort to reach universal goals in controlling and preventing malaria. The report examines whether the activities of European Union donors are in line with the agreed Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP) strategy to achieve universal elimination of the disease and provides the latest insight into the commitments made to date.

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NEWS - Uganda: Closing the net on malaria

Apr 24th, 2009

Guardian Weekly- Malaria is a preventable disease, yet it kills at least one million people worldwide every year and is Uganda's biggest child killer. As people across the world mark World Malaria Day on 25 April, Agnes Suubi, senior operations officer at the not-for-profit Malaria Consortium in Uganda, describes the work health workers are doing to raise awareness of symptoms and the importance of getting treatment quickly. The Guardian is tracking similar work across Katine sub-county in rural Uganda.

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NEWS RELEASE - Malaria Consortium Secures an Innovative Grant from the Canadian International Development Agency to reduce child deaths in Africa.

Apr 24th, 2009

Press release- Malaria Consortium, the world's leading not-for-profit dedicated to malaria control, has been awarded 20 million Canadian dollars by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) over four years to tackle the most common killers of children, fevers caused by malaria and pneumonia.

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EVENT - World Malaria Day 2009: Mauvais Air Photo Exhibition

Apr 23rd, 2009

Malaria Consortium presents an exclusive UK exhibition of William Daniels’ photograph collection, Mauvais Air, to celebrate World Malaria Day 2009.

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NEWS RELEASE - Comic Relief invests £6.3m to Tackle Malaria

Apr 23rd, 2009

Press release- Just days ahead of World Malaria Day 2009 Comic Relief has awarded £6.3m in funding to Malaria Consortium and the Global Fund to help protect over 1m people in Africa from malaria.

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NEWS - Count me in: A World Malaria Day hub for the Malaria Community

Apr 23rd, 2009

Malaria Consortium, in partnership with Roll Back Malaria, led in the development of www.worldmalariaday.org, a dynamic and interactive information and advocacy portal. The World Malaria Day website was established to help individuals and civil society contribute to the achievement of the Global Malaria Action Plan goals.

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NEWS - The Big Picture

Apr 20th, 2009

Third Sector- Photo story using one of William Daniel’s photographs from the Mauvais Air collection. Counting Malaria Out campaign for World Malaria Day 2009.

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EVENT - BBC Filming of Malaria Programme for Comic Relief

Apr 19th, 2009

The BBC and Comic Relief came to Uganda for 12 days (9th to 20th December 2008). Presenter Denise Van Outen visited Iganga District and fellow presenter Fearne Cotton visited Mulago hospital. The Uganda Ministry of Health, District Health Offices, main hospitals and the community were all involved and with the support from the Malaria Consortium team in Uganda, together made documentaries about malaria for the programme.

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EVENT - British Parliamentarians see the front line in the fight against malaria

Feb 23rd, 2009

From 16-22 February, Malaria Consortium, on behalf of the European Alliance Against Malaria, organised a parliamentary study tour to Uganda. The tour group comprised four British parliamentarians, three of whom are members of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases.

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NEWS - Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand and Malaria Consortium sign long-term agreement

Feb 17th, 2009

The Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand, has signed a long-term collaborative agreement with the Malaria Consortium, a UK non-governmental organization, to work together towards eliminating malaria in the Region. This collaboration is particularly significant as it aims to integrate evidence, policy, and implementation into effective action.

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All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases launches its fourth report on delivery

Dec 17th, 2008

London, Wednesday 17th December 2008. Today, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria & Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG) publishes its fourth ground-breaking report entitled "Delivering Malaria Control to Those in Need: How to Succeed in a Time of Renewed Hope".

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News release: Dr Chris van Tulleken calls for attention to rights when delivering health care in the developing world.

Dec 10th, 2008

London, Friday 12 December 2009 - On Wednesday night, the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Dr Chris van Tulleken, Patron of the medical aid agency Merlin, Honorary Lecturer at UCL, Registrar in Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine at University College Hospital, and a co-presenter of the recent Channel 4 series ‘Medicine Men Go Wild', called for a more equitable rights-based approach to delivering aid for public health in developing countries.

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Malaria Consortium joins more than 116 million people - nearly 2% of the World's Population - in 'Stand Up Against Poverty'

Oct 23rd, 2008

Staff from Malaria Consortium (MC) in Uganda and the UK joined with millions of people worldwide to take a stand against poverty on Friday 17th October, the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

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World leaders commit record billions to tackle malaria

Sep 25th, 2008

New York, September 25, 2008 - World leaders gathered today at the 2008 Millennium Development Goals Malaria Summit to endorse an ambitious new Global Malaria Action Plan and commit nearly $3 billion toward reducing the number of malaria deaths to near zero by 2015.

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Call to Action on the Millennium Development Goals

Sep 25th, 2008

On 25 September the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, will host an historic event in New York. For the first time, the world will come together to accelerate progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The event, which will be attended by over 90 heads of state plus business, faith and charity leaders and celebrities, will be part of a week of action at the UN.

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European Advocates Ready to Mobilise Around New Global Malaria Blueprint

Sep 25th, 2008

The launch of the first single comprehensive global blueprint to fight malaria - the Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP) - signals a key moment for European malaria advocates to strengthen and consolidate their work to ensure that European leaders, decision makers, donors, the private sector and civil society take resolute and rigorous action towards a malaria-free world.

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Global Roadmap To End Malaria Launched At UN Summit

Sep 25th, 2008

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.

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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION PROVIDES UPDATED MALARIA SITUATION

Sep 18th, 2008

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.

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News release: The Guardian International Development Journalism Competition Finalists Announced

Jul 23rd, 2008

London, 23rd July 2008: The groundbreaking Guardian International Development Journalism Competition has now reached its final stages with the announcement of the 16 finalists.

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UK DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND MALARIA CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCE FIVE-YEAR PROGRAMME TO STRENGTHEN MALARIA CONTROL DELIVERY IN NIGERIA

Jul 11th, 2008

London, Friday 11 July: Today, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and Malaria Consortium officially announced a five year DFID funded programme that will support and strengthen the Government of Nigeria's national efforts to control malaria.

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European Malaria Alliance Welcomes G8 Commitments on Aid for Africa and Promises on Malaria

Jul 9th, 2008

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

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Statement to the G8 - APPMG Malaria Control Statement July 2008: Focus on Delivery to Achieve Sustained Impact

Jul 8th, 2008

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.

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Council of the European Union adopts ambitious MDG agenda for action!

Jun 18th, 2008

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.

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News release: Day of the African Child - The EU must tackle Malaria to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

Jun 16th, 2008

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.

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Malaria Consortium World Malaria Day Statement

Apr 25th, 2008

London, Friday 25 April 2008. On the first World Malaria Day, Malaria Consortium calls for the mobilisation and commitments for action by all stakeholders in the response to malaria across the world.

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News release: World Malaria Day 2008 in the UK - NGOS, BUSINESSES AND TRADE UNIONS UNITE AGAINST MALARIA

Apr 25th, 2008

LONDON, 25 APRIL 2008: On the first World Malaria Day, Malaria Consortium, International Business Leaders' Forum, Nigerian Organisation of Women and Trades Union Congress are calling for the mobilisation and commitments for action by all UK civil society stakeholders in the response to malaria.

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Brown in £100m war on malaria

Apr 9th, 2008

Gordon Brown has announced that Britain will provide 20 million extra bed nets to help in the fight against malaria - one sixth of the estimated world shortage.

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OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 2008 WORLD SWIM AGAINST MALARIA

Apr 4th, 2008

The opening ceremony of the 2008 World Swim Against Malaria Uganda took place on 4th April 2008 starting with a presentation by Dr Kate Kolaczinski on malaria prevention and control to the junior pupils at Kampala International School, Kabira.

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Distinguished Prize for Malaria

Mar 27th, 2008

The Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize for medical research has been awarded to Brian Greenwood for his bold and innovative work on malaria.

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News release: MTN DONATES 200 MILLION UGANDAN SHILLINGS TO MALARIA CONSORTIUM

Mar 20th, 2008

Kampala, Uganda - The MTN Foundation, MTN's CSR arm has partnered with the Malaria Consortium in the fight against Malaria. Malaria Consortium is a non-profit organization that works to combat malaria and other communicable diseases among the poorest and most vulnerable people in Africa and Asia.

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News release: MALARIA CONSORTIUM AND THE GUARDIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT JOURNALISM COMPETITION

Mar 10th, 2008

London, Monday 10 March 2008: Malaria Consortium (MC), the leading malaria non-governmental organisation in Europe, is teaming up with The Guardian newspaper and seven other organisations to launch a unique journalism competition.

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Spanish Government Commits EUR 5 Million To DNDi'sResearch For New Medicines For Neglected Diseases

Mar 7th, 2008

Spain's Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI) granted EUR 5.0 million to the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) for essential research and development (R&D) of drugs for neglected diseases such as human African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and malaria

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Malaria Consortium's Statement for International Women's Day 2008

Mar 7th, 2008

London, Friday 7 March 2008. On the eve of International Women's Day 2008, Malaria Consortium is calling for an increase in targeted malaria interventions towards pregnant women.

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Launch of Roll Back Malaria World Malaria Day website

Mar 4th, 2008

The World Malaria Day is fast approaching and preparations for this exceptional advocacy opportunity are well underway around the world.

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THE GLOBAL FUND OPENS ITS EIGHTH FUNDING ROUND

Mar 3rd, 2008

Geneva - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today began accepting proposals for a new funding round, emphasizing the importance of scaling up service delivery to key affected populations and strengthening health systems. The Global Fund also recommends that both government and nongovernmental organizations be included as recipients of grants.

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New release: Malaria Consortium launches World Malaria Day Virtual Awareness Campaign

Feb 26th, 2008

Malaria Consortium, as part of its programme "Mobilising for Malaria", is launching a virtual campaign, using the internet to involve people for the first World Malaria Day, which takes place on the 25th of April 2008.

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President Bush Announces New Global Initiative To Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases

Feb 20th, 2008

Today, President Bush has challenged the world to reduce dramatically and eventually control and eliminate the burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) as a major threat to health and economic growth in the developing world. This Initiative will make a total of $350 million available over five years to provide integrated treatment of more than 300 million people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and target seven major NTDs: lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis); schistosomiasis (snail fever); trachoma (eye infection); onchocerciasis (river blindness); and three soil-transmittedhelminthes (STHs - hookworm, roundworm, whipworm).

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Gordon Brown calls for new action plan on child mortality

Feb 19th, 2008

The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has today expressed concern that the international community has fallen behind its commitment to reduce child mortality by two-thirds by 2015, calling for a new action plan to 'regain the ground lost'.

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US businessman Chambers to head UN malaria drive

Feb 15th, 2008

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations appointed U.S. businessman and philanthropist Ray Chambers on Thursday as special envoy for malaria to lead an ambitious bid to slash deaths from the disease in the next few years.

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Uganda: Free Nets Changing Lives of Women in Amuria

Jan 12th, 2008

T is about 11:00am on a cloudy Wednesday at the Health Centre III in Amuria district, northern Uganda. Scores of young women who have come for antenatal services, sit anxiously on the veranda, waiting to be attended to. Many of them are either pregnant or have young children strapped onto their backs or hovering restlessly around them. They are also being told about the signs of malaria and how to seek immediate treatment.

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USAID-Funded Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program Treats More Than 14 Million People During First Year

Jan 4th, 2008

The NTD Control Program is being implemented by RTI International in collaboration with Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health, the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative at Imperial College London, International Trachoma Initiative, Malaria Consortium, IMA World Health, and Helen Keller International. The program represents one of the first global efforts to integrate existing disease-specific treatment programs to expand care for five neglected tropical diseases to millions of the world's poorest people.

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Spanish Parliament approve private member bill on Malaria

Dec 13th, 2007

The Spanish Parliament approved the private member bill on Malaria which European Alliance Against Malaria partner, Federación de Planificación Familiar Estatal F.P.F.E, presented to them last month

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DNDi Receives $25.7M from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Develop New Medicines for Neglected Diseases

Dec 12th, 2007

12 December, Geneva, Switzerland: The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) has received a USD 25.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research and develop new medicines to treat human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, and visceral leishmaniasis (VL).

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News release: UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Health Calls on All Actors to Fulfil their Human Rights Duties in the Fight against Malaria

Dec 10th, 2007

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.

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CHOGM 2007: The Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting

Dec 5th, 2007

Every two years, Commonwealth leaders meet for a few days to discuss global and Commonwealth issues, and to agree collective policies and initiatives. This year CHOGM was held in Kampala, Uganda from the 23rd-25th November. 16 Presidents and 20 Prime Ministers attended.

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A World AIDS Day Message from Malaria Consortium

Dec 1st, 2007

On this World AIDS Day 2007, Malaria Consortium calls for increased partnership working and collaboration between malaria and HIV advocates in order to reduce the burden of the diseases.

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Malaria Community Applauds Clinton $1 Billion a year pledge; Invites other Candidates to make Malaria Commitments

Nov 29th, 2007

Addis Ababa – Thursday 29, November 2007: U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton today pledged to expand the U.S. government commitment to malaria to US$1 billion a year if elected, setting the goal of ending malaria-related deaths in Africa by the end of her second term. The campaign said this funding would be in addition to U.S. government support of malaria control through the World Bank and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, which finances the majority of malaria control efforts around the world

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RBM Partnership Board gives the go ahead for the further development of an Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria (AMFm)

Nov 29th, 2007

On 29 November, the RBM Partnership Board gave the go ahead for the further development of an Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria (AMFm) - a ground breaking initiative to improve access to safe, effective and affordable malaria medicines.

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Global malaria community in Ethiopia to plan intensified battle against disease

Nov 28th, 2007

Addis Ababa – Wednesday 28, November 2007: Health Ministers, heads of agencies, philanthropists, and many of the world's leading institutions in the global fight against malaria are meeting in Addis this week to endorse approaches to escalate malaria prevention, treatment and care and achieve high level coverage with malaria control over much of the African continent.

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Malaria Consortium Supports Launch of Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria in new Report

Nov 22nd, 2007

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

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Global Fund Approves Seventh Round of Grants

Nov 13th, 2007

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today announced a total of US $471 million for malaria control over the next two years - the largest amount approved for malaria control in a single round of grant-making

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NEW INNOVATION GRANTS BOOST MALARIA ADVOCACY EFFORTS IN AFRICA

Nov 11th, 2007

London, 5/11/07. Malaria Consortium announced today three grants for malaria advocacy to civil society organisations covering twelve African countries.

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Labour Fringe - Financing the Health MDGs

Oct 26th, 2007

International development organisations have urged the UK Government to take action in order to achieve the millennium development goals.

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Museveni opens AIDS drugs factory

Oct 10th, 2007

http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/590861

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Visit of Stephen O'Brien MP, Chair of Malaria Consortium, to Uganda and Mozambique

Oct 8th, 2007

Stephen O’Brien MP, Chair of the Malaria Consortium and Conservative Shadow Minister for Health/Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Malaria Group, went on a visit to Uganda from the 17th - 23rd September and to Mozambique from the 23rd-27th. The purpose of his visit was to see first hand the work of the Malaria Consortium on the ground in these two countries

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Conservative Fringe - Global Health and the MDGs: What Next?

Oct 3rd, 2007

Conservative Shadow Minister for Health & Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Malaria Group, Stephen O’Brien MP, has called for increased and determined efforts to work towards the MDGs. He was chairing and speaking at a Conservative fringe meeting entitled Global Health and the MDGs: What Next? organised by the European Alliance against Malaria, Action for Global Health and Results. Mr O’Brien was joined at the meeting by Geoff Adlide from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), Gavin Bryce from Action for Global Health and Dr Aileen Allsop, Vice President for Science Policy at AstraZeneca.

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Liberal Democrat Fringe - The Health MDGs: What Next?

Sep 20th, 2007

Liberal Democrat chair of the International Development Select Committee, Malcolm Bruce, has called for urgent action to achieve the millennium development goals.He was speaking at a Liberal Democrat fringe meeting entitled 'The Health MDGs: What Next?,' organised by The European Alliance Against Malaria, Action for Global Health and Results.

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RBM Joins the International Community in Celebrating the First Anniversary of UNITAID

Sep 20th, 2007

The Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM) today called for celebration of the first anniversary of UNITAID, an international drug purchase facility launched in September 2006. Hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNITAID continually works to reduce the cost of high-quality AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria drugs for populations in developing countries. RBM recognizes UNITAID’s work to increase access of malarial treatments to low-income populations. UNITAID, in collaboration with partners UNICEF and WHO, supplied rescue packages of effective malaria treatments - artemisinin based combination therapies (ACTs) - for Liberia and Burundi, when they ran out of medicines and funding late last year.

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NGOs come together to make healthcare for all a reality: now is the time for European donors to put their money where their mouths are.

Sep 14th, 2007

Non-governmental organisations met recently at the Financing and Action for Global Health Conference in London and called on European donors to improve their development policy and make more money available to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals.

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Laura Bush in Mozambique

Aug 9th, 2007

Laura Bush's visit to Mozambique

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BBC Radio 4 and Drug resistance

Jul 10th, 2007

Dr Sylvia Meek, MC's Technical Director spoke on drug resistance on BBC Radio 4's science series which aired on Tuesday 3rd July (1st part) and Tuesday 10th July (2nd part) at 9.00 pm.

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News release: Evidence shows tackling malaria will help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Jul 5th, 2007

5 July 2007, BRUSSELS: As the international community marks the mid-way point between the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the 2015 target date, the European Alliance Against Malaria urges strengthened efforts to tackle malaria as part of getting poverty reduction efforts on track to meet the agreed targets.

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News release: Malaria Consortium Announces New Innovation Grants for Malaria Advocacy in Africa

May 9th, 2007

London, 9/05/07. Malaria Consortium announced today the launch of Grants to promote and encourage new and innovative advocacy initiatives by African organisations in Africa.

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School children in Inhambane Receive the President of Mozambique Wearing Malaria Hats

Mar 31st, 2007

In 2007 Malaria Consortium has started a new activity within its communication strategy plan, to involve school children in malaria mobilization for the ongoing "under the net" campaign. This campaign was launched at the start of the rainy season in 2006 (November) and has been continued throughout 2007, focusing on special malaria dates such as the Africa Malaria Day (25th of April).

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Launch of the APPMG Report on Financing Mechanisms for Malaria

Mar 15th, 2007

Rt. Hon Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development, launched the second report of the All-Party Parliamentary Malaria Group, (APPMG) “Financing Mechanisms for Malaria”, at the APPMG’s meeting on 15th March 2007.

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