Tackling Malaria

EDM number 28 in 2009-10, proposed by Bob Spink on 18/11/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Diseases.

That this House notes that malaria still afflicts 40 per cent. of the world's population; calls on governments of malaria-endemic countries and international public and private organisations to work together to fight malaria worldwide and to raise awareness of malaria; further notes that, although preventable and curable, malaria continues to infect more than 500 million people each year in more than 90 countries of the world, killing betweenone and three million people, including a child every 30 seconds, and that it is especially lethal to children underfive and pregnant mothers;further notes that although the burden of malaria is heaviest in sub-Saharan Africa, it also afflicts Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Europe, and is spreading with climate change; congratulates all those engaged in the global campaign against malaria; further notes a number of countries have reduced malaria deaths by 50 per cent. in the last five years as theresources and implementation of preventative measures and treatments have been scaled up;further notes thatmalaria will only be defeated through collaboration and co-ordinated action of all relevant actors on local, national, regional and international levels; and therefore calls on the Government to maintain and enhance its international co-operation, collaboration and co-ordination of action towards the achievement of the UN 2010 and 2015 goals to end suffering and deaths from malaria, the world's most avoidable but devastating scourge.

This motion has been signed by a total of 67 MPs.