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All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases launches its fourth report on delivery
17 December 2008London, 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 …
News release: Dr Chris van Tulleken calls for attention to rights when delivering health care in the developing world.
10 December 2008London, 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 Infect…
Malaria Consortium joins more than 116 million people - nearly 2% of the World's Population - in 'Stand Up Against Poverty'
23 October 2008Staff 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. Short…
Global Roadmap To End Malaria Launched At UN Summit
25 September 2008The GMAP offers a comprehensive blueprint for reducing malaria. It provides timelines for delivering nets and drugs to all people at risk in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Americas, the Middle East and Eurasia. It also outlines a strat…
European Advocates Ready to Mobilise Around New Global Malaria Blueprint
25 September 2008Global Malaria Action Plan: A Framework for Joint Action 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 a…
Call to Action on the Millennium Development Goals
25 September 2008On 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).…
World leaders commit record billions to tackle malaria
25 September 2008New 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 …
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION PROVIDES UPDATED MALARIA SITUATION
18 September 2008Geneva - 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 sharp…
News release: The Guardian International Development Journalism Competition Finalists Announced
23 July 2008London, 23rd July 2008: The groundbreaking Guardian International Development Journalism Competition has now reached its final stages with the announcement of the 16 finalists. The competition was a collaboration between the Gu…
UK DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND MALARIA CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCE FIVE-YEAR PROGRAMME TO STRENGTHEN MALARIA CONTROL DELIVERY IN NIGERIA
11 July 2008London, 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 nati…
European Malaria Alliance Welcomes G8 Commitments on Aid for Africa and Promises on Malaria
9 July 2008European 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…
Statement to the G8 - APPMG Malaria Control Statement July 2008: Focus on Delivery to Achieve Sustained Impact
8 July 2008Extract from statement published July 2008. The full version can be downloaded here The UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria was launched in 2005 and has held regular presentations and debates dedicated to promoting c…
Council of the European Union adopts ambitious MDG agenda for action!
18 June 2008The 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 Initi…
News release: Day of the African Child - The EU must tackle Malaria to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
16 June 2008Malaria accounts for one in five of all childhood deaths in Africa. 2000 will die while the global community commemorates the Day of the African Child. Each year, approximately 300 to 500 million malaria infections lead to over on…
Malaria Consortium World Malaria Day Statement
25 April 2008London, 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. In light of the need for ac…
News release: World Malaria Day 2008 in the UK - NGOS, BUSINESSES AND TRADE UNIONS UNITE AGAINST MALARIA
25 April 2008The burden of malaria is human and economic and the disease impacts on the vital sectors of society, in particular employment. As a result, the response to malaria must be multi-sectorial and be based on partnerships at all levels…
Brown in 100m war on malaria
9 April 2008Gordon 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. Writing in The Sun newspaper today, the Prime Minister said that now…
OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 2008 WORLD SWIM AGAINST MALARIA
4 April 2008The 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 Sc…
Distinguished Prize for Malaria
27 March 2008The Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize for medical research has been awarded to Brian Greenwood for his bold and innovative work on malaria. At a time when malaria was spreading uncontrollably across the African continent claiming more t…
News release: MTN DONATES 200 MILLION UGANDAN SHILLINGS TO MALARIA CONSORTIUM
20 March 2008Kampala, 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 disea…
News release: MALARIA CONSORTIUM AND THE GUARDIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT JOURNALISM COMPETITION
10 March 2008London, 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 compet…
Spanish Government Commits EUR 5 Million To DNDi'sResearch For New Medicines For Neglected Diseases
7 March 2008Spain\'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 dise…
Malaria Consortium's Statement for International Women's Day 2008
7 March 2008London, 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. Pregnant women are the main adult group at risk…
Launch of Roll Back Malaria World Malaria Day website
4 March 2008The World Malaria Day is fast approaching and preparations for this exceptional advocacy opportunity are well underway around the world. To help galvanize action and showcase the meaningful work of the RMB Partners, the RBM Sec…
THE GLOBAL FUND OPENS ITS EIGHTH FUNDING ROUND
3 March 2008Geneva - 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 heal…
New release: Malaria Consortium launches World Malaria Day Virtual Awareness Campaign
26 February 2008Malaria 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. b…
President Bush Announces New Global Initiative To Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases
20 February 2008Fighting Neglected Tropical Diseases Around The WorldPresident Bush Announces New Global Initiative To Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases Today, President Bush has challenged the world to reduce dramatically and eventually cont…
Gordon Brown calls for new action plan on child mortality
19 February 2008Summary 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 th…
US businessman Chambers to head UN malaria drive
15 February 2008UNITED 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. …
Uganda: Free Nets Changing Lives of Women in Amuria
12 January 2008IT 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 o…
USAID-Funded Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program Treats More Than 14 Million People During First Year
4 January 2008The 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,…