Agreed Key Messages for World Malaria Day 2010

1. Investment in malaria control is saving lives and has far-reaching benefits.
2. Malaria control is rapidly advancing throughout Africa due to intensified efforts.
3. Malaria control, research and elimination activities significantly impact the MDGs.
4. 2010 is a year of opportunity and of renewing global commitment to malaria's demise.

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Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series: World Malaria Day 2010: Africa Update
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Roll Back Malaria Progress & Impact Series: Malaria Funding and Resource Utilization: The First Decade of Roll Back Malaria
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Malaria Fact Sheet
Malaria has plagued humankind since ancient times and is still a significant threat to half of the world’s population - 3.3 billion people living in 109 countries are at risk of contracting the disease. Estimates suggest that malaria afflicts between 350 and 500 million people every year. In addition, as many as 30,000 visitors to tropical countries are infected annually.
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Malaria in the South-East Asia
Region 2010 Overview [in English]
Malaria Situation in South-East Asia Region: Country Reports [in English]

PMI: Saving Lives in Africa
Fourth Annual Report April 2010
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La Toile: WHO/AFRO Malaria Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 1, March 2010
Communities engage to conquer malaria.
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The Global Malaria action Plan
The Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP), developed by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, is the first-ever single comprehensive blueprint for global malaria control and elimination. It outlines strategies, costs, goals and timelines designed to build on the trajectory of recent successes in malaria control, moving towards full malaria control and beyond in countries across the globe.
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Key Facts, Figures and Strategies - The Global Malaria Action Plan
The renewed attention and commitment to malaria over the past ten years continues to fuel momentum and presents a unique opportunity to combat the disease and reach the targets posed for 2010 and 2015. The Global Malaria Action Plan offers a detailed framework for the ongoing fight against malaria.
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Shrinking the Malaria Map
The purpose of this Guide on Malaria Elimination for Policy Makers is to provide guidance and high-level technical insight to leaders in governments that are considering or have embarked upon a national or regional strategy of malaria elimination and to the donors, agencies, and others who support them. This document is a policy digest of the Prospectus on Malaria Elimination, published by the Global Health Group at UCSF Global Health Sciences on behalf of the Malaria Elimination Group (MEG).
A Guide on Malaria Elimination for Policy Makers [in English]
A Prospectus on Malaria Elimination [in English]

Malaria & Children: Progress in Intervention Coverage
Summary update 2009.
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Working with Communities to Save Lives in Africa
The President’s Malaria Initiative Third Annual Report.
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The winning formula to beat malaria – second edition
The second edition of the IFRC advocacy report has been issued on the occasion of World Malaria Day 2010. It further demonstrates how the combination of distributing mosquitoe nets and working closely with the affected communities is a winning formula in the fight against malaria. It is updated with new case studies and figures.
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WHO World Malaria Report 2009
Significant progress has been made in delivering life saving malaria nets and treatments over the last few years, but the coverage of malaria programmes needs to be stepped up drastically in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Commemorating World Malaria Day 2009 — 2010 Theme
Counting malaria out
RBM Communication RBM/SEC/2009/COM.2
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Download World Malaria Day 2010 logo
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Posters
View/download BCT poster
End Malaria posters et al.

Audio
Hope is the Light:
Netprotect for the benefit of the World Malaria Day
Listen [Song - Hope is the Light ].

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: On World Malaria Day progress in prevention, diagnosis, treatment and awareness

WHO Podcast: Diagnostic tests can help Count Malaria Out Interview with Dr Robert Newman, WHO's Director of the Global Malaria Programme

IFRC/WRS: World Malaria Day 2010 Debate

RFI: Interview with Dr J Van Erps, RBM Secretariat

WRS: Health Matters: Malaria Interview with P Smith, RBM Secretariat

Video
UAM PSAs:
Africa's World Cup Stars Unite To Fight Malaria .

IFRC World Malaria Day 2010 video More than 300,000 malaria deaths averted, 18.2 million people better protected

Christian Aid:
New animation teaches people about malaria.

Financial Times Special Report on Combatting Malaria

Video statement of Prof Coll-Seck

Video statement of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

13 minutes of varied B-roll

UNTV: World Malaria Day

sanofi-aventis Access to Medicines Division video-reportage achieved during the World Malaria Day 2009 held at the National Theatre in Accra, Ghana [in English] [in French]

CIFA The United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Malaria, Ray Chambers, highlights the importance of the faith community in fighting malaria and calls for a more cooperative, cohesive approach among all faith communities working against the disease. View video clip

PSI World Malaria Day PSI - Ashley Judd. View video clip