Geneva, 17^th June 2009; 10.00 – 17.30

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

 

In the past decade the malaria landscape has been transformed due to greater and innovative funding, collaboration and scaling up of control efforts. The European Union has taken an important role in these reaffirmed commitments. Malaria as a global health issue has been integrated in the European development agenda and some EU Member States have taken the lead in promoting new mechanisms and initiatives to combat the disease. There is now strong and solid evidence that malaria efforts are delivering remarkable improvements in reducing illness and death by more than 50 percent in various regions and countries. 

 

Yet, despite progress, each year hundreds of thousands of women and children continue to die from this preventable and curable disease. Malaria continues to impose an enormous economic burden on families, communities and entire countries in Africa. Malaria-related health expenditures and lost productivity costs Africa’s economy an estimated $12 billion per year and significantly impacts foreign direct investment, tourism, labour productivity. Finally, malaria accounts for approximately 40% of public health expenditures in sub-Saharan Africa, 20%-50% of inpatient admissions, and up to 50% of outpatient visits in highly endemic areas.

 

In this context, 2009 is a particularly important year as we look forward to 2010, the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership’s target for halving the malaria burden and reaching universal coverage. In order to realise this vision, RBM developed the Global Malaria Action Plan for a malaria-free world (GMAP), which was launched at the MDG Summit in September 2008. The GMAP provides a global framework for action and gives a comprehensive overview of the global malaria landscape; it offers an evidence-based approach to deliver effective prevention and treatment to all people at risk and presents an estimate of the annual funding needs for the achievement of the 2010 and 2015 targets for the fight against malaria.

 

A few days before the G8 summit in Italy, the need to encourage stronger funding and policy commitments for the fight against malaria and to the achievement of the GMAP by the European Union, the major donor on development issues, is greater than ever. European stakeholders should be involved in this 2-year campaign in comprehensively tracking the global progress and impact made, in monitoring the delivery of malaria commodities, the increases in financial resources and the development of new and improved tools and initiatives.

 

Objective of the conference

 

As the European Union and its Member States are strongly involved at different levels, the conference will be an opportunity to share experiences and to focus on:

• What are the contributions made by EU Member States and institutions to the fight against malaria?
• How can they improve on progress made and coordinate at international level to further meet the GMAP objectives?
• What are the challenges and opportunities for European donors in terms of financial and political commitments?

 

Session 1: European Union contribution to the Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP) - Is there an EU strategy to reach the goals?

 

As the European Union provides over half of global aid, the European Commission and the Member States are well-placed to play a leading role in the fight against malaria. Nonetheless, the funding and policy landscape in Europe aimed at combating the disease and achieving the Global Malaria Action Plan remains complex and difficult to map.

A number of EU Member States, as partners in the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, have adopted the Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP). These should therefore integrate the GMAP’s guiding principles in their policies on the malaria response both at national and EU level. If EU donors are to achieve the ultimate objective of the GMAP – malaria eradication - they will have to guarantee universal access to prevention and treatment in malaria-endemic countries by ensuring increased and effective interventions and funding either through bilateral or multilateral aid.

 

Session 1 will aim to:

• Identify what the EC and the Member States have done to date to meet the GMAP’s objectives (achievements, financing, challenges) and assess to what extent a European specific approach exists towards the GMAP’s goals
• Discuss the priorities and opportunities available at European level in terms of funding, policy, and R&D in order to achieve the GMAP objectives. What issues/gaps in these areas should be addressed in regard to technical assistance, implementation and capacity building?

 

Session 2: Malaria, Europe and global health strategies - The importance of integration and coherence

 

Effective, long-term malaria control is inextricably linked to the strength of health systems. Strong health systems can deliver effective, safe, high-quality interventions when and where they are needed and assure access to reliable health information and effective disease surveillance. At the same time, integrating malaria treatment, prevention and surveillance into existing health programs and activities in endemic countries will ensure that funding earmarked for malaria control contributes to the development, expansion and continuous improvement of national health systems. The international community has recognized the importance of health systems strengthening in combating the major poverty-related diseases in the poorest countries of the world. In 2007, the G8 pledges US$ 60 billion to strengthen health systems in Africa and advance the MDGs related to HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.

 

Having an integrated health strategy together with disease-specific programmes is essential and urgently needed. With MDGs and malaria universal coverage targets, integrated actions are more than ever relevant. To achieve universal coverage, countries must go beyond the procurement and financing of interventions to ensure that the products can reach every person at risk. This requires the strengthening of national healthcare systems which will ensure that malaria medicines will be accessible to those who most need it. Integrated campaigns involving long-lasting insecticide treated nets and ACTs have produced some amazing results. Ethiopia delivered 20 million nets between 2005 and 2007 and saw a 51% drop in deaths of children under five. Malaria control and eradication require actions in multiple fields and should thus be integrated into all areas of donor programmes and be addressed in all political dialogue on development.

 

Session 2 will discuss:

• How malaria specific activities support the development of health-system and vice-versa
• How integrating malaria within the global health agenda ultimately moves us closer to malaria eradication, the ultimate goal of the GMAP

 

Please click here to access the programme of the event.

Please click here to see the list of participants to the conference.

Please click here to download the list of recommendations for future malaria advocacy work in Europe that was drafted as a result of the conference.

 

Speakers and Presentations

 

Are EU policies and strategies in combating malaria coherent with the GMAP?
Mr. Henning Mikkelsen, Policy Adviser HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis / European Commission - Directorate General Development

 

The role of the EU and its member States in the promotion of innovative financing mechanisms against malaria: UNITAID and AMFm
Mr. Philippe Duneton, Executive Secretary, UNITAID

 

Contributing to Global Action: the European Union and the fight against Malaria
Mr. Karl Deering, Advocacy Manager, Malaria Consortium - International

 

Malaria, health and community system strengthening: the example of the Global Fund
Ms. Mary Ann Lansang, Director of the Knowledge Management Unit, Health Advisory,
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

 

European policy and approaches towards Malaria, HIV, TB and other global health
strategies – a civil society perspective
Mr. Frazer Goodwin, Senior Policy & Advocacy Officer, European Public Health Alliance

 

Malaria elimination – the way forward for Europe
Professor Christian Lengeler – Project Leader, Swiss Tropical Institute

 

Brussels, 21st April 2009; 08.30-17.30, European Commission, DG Development

 

Over recent years, aid architecture has changed. Most donors have decentralized their decision-making process at regional and country levels to ensure a country-lead approach¹. In the context of the implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), the European Commission and EU Member States are moving towards better harmonization and alignment of their aid and improved country ownership.

 

Recognition is growing that the engagement of communities in developing national health plans in addition to holding their governments accountable, has to be strengthened. Community participation is key to ensuring good governance and country ownership. But if community participation is to be effective, it must be developed as part of a clearly thought-out and coherent strategy. Community participation processes are more that just the use of an approach. What happens before and after is extremely important. It requires going beyond consultation to enable communities to become an integral part of the decision-making and implementation process. It reflects the need for strengthening the development of more active communities in their own right.

 

The essential role that communities play in mobilising people to access health services, providing health care to complement government services, and in particular the role they play in reaching marginalised or hard-to-reach communities, is not yet widely acknowledged. The history of endemic diseases clearly shows that without community involvement in the provision of health services, many people globally would not have access to basic health prevention and care. Thus, the contribution of community health workers is crucial to reach the health MDGs.

 

The EU provides over half of global aid, and therefore has the responsibility to take a leadership role in improving meaningful community participation. The benefits of community participation in planning and delivering health programs can yield greater awareness of health issues, more appropriate use of health services and improve prevention of diseases such as malaria. That is why the role of the EU is to properly support resourced consultation processes in partner countries and to ensure community participation in the decisions which affect their lives.

 

As community participation takes place at different levels and encompasses a full range of activities to promote joint decision-making, implementation and accountability, the conference will be an opportunity to share experiences and to focus on:

• How to ensure a meaningful community participation in decision-making?
• How to better support the role of community health workers in strengthening health systems?
• What role for donors and partners in supporting community systems strengthening?

Objective of the conference

The challenge is to develop new relationships between the health care system, the community and the public policy makers. In that context, a conference bringing together development organizations, decision-makers, donors and academia, is essential to discuss how community participation in decision-making and implementation can be reinforced and what strategies can be adopted, by countries and internationally, to address it.

 

The conference specifically aims at ensuring meaningful community participations at both national and Brussels levels during the EU budget Mid-Term Review, and at contributing to the EC policy dialogue and programming of health support. As the Member states will meet on April 28^th and 29^th to discuss this strategy, the main outcomes of the conference will be shared with them, to guide their discussions.

 

For any further details, please contact:

Aude Galli

EU Advocacy and Policy Officer - European Alliance Against Malaria

Red Cross / EU Office

Rue Belliard 65, Box 7, B-1040 Brussels

Tel: +32 (0)2 235 09 11/ Fax: +32 (0)2 230 54 64

Mobile: +32 (0)486 26 44 51

ag(at)redcross-eu.net

 

Please click here to access the programme of the event.

 

According to WHO, ‘community participation’ can be defined as "a process by which people are enabled to become actively and genuinely involved in defining the issues of concern to them, in making decisions about factors that affect their lives, in formulating and implementing policies, in planning, developing and delivering services and in taking action to achieve change²." It is an active two-way process and a means of gaining broad based community support and the efforts of volunteers. It increases democracy, empower people, mobilize resources and energy, develop holistic and integrated approaches, achieve better decisions, more effective health services and ensure the ownership and sustainability of programmes. Community participation draws on the energy and enthusiasm that exists within communities to define what that community wants to do and how it wants to operate.

 

Community participation is often used interchangeably with or alongside a number of other terms. It is useful to clarify the meanings of the following:

• Consultation often forms an integral part of processes and involves people being referred to for information and asked their opinions. Although this implies that communities’ views may be taken into consideration, it has not generally meant that people are actively engaged in the decision-making process.
• Involvement is a term often used synonymously with participation. It implies being included as a necessary part of something.
• Empowerment is a process whereby individuals or communities gain confidence, self-esteem and power to articulate their concerns and ensure that action is taken to address them.
• Community capacity-building is development work – involving training and providing resources – that strengthens the ability of community organizations and groups to build structures, systems and skills that enable them to participate and take community action.

 

[1] This is true for the European Commission through its delegations, for the Global Fund through its CCM (Country-Coordinating mechanisms), etc...

[2] WHO (1999). Community participation in local health and sustainable development: a working document on approaches and techniques. Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

On the 19^th of February, DSW, as a member of the European Alliance against Malaria, organized an interactive session on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, hosted by the Spanish Permanent Representation to the EU.

 

The GF briefed about 30 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and other stakeholders working in the field of health, on the results and the impact of the Global Fund as well as its need for sustainable funding. Furthermore, the potential involvement of Brussels-based CSOs in the mobilization of additional resources from the EU was also examined alongside an update on central policies of the Global Fund such as the Gender Equity Strategy and the Instrument of Community Systems Strengthening. The participants were actively involved in the Q&A, which lead to a very stimulating open discussion among all the participants of the event. Additionally to the Global Fund interactive session, there was a presentation on the ‘Fair Share initiative’ by Global SIDA, a member of the NGO delegation of the Global Fund.

 

Please click on the following links to access the documents related to the event:

 

Results and Innovation in Development Cooperation for Health - Silvia Ferazzi, Manager, Donor Governments

 

Update on policies related to the involvement of CSOs

 

Global Fund Fair Share 2008-2010

 

Minutes

 

London, Friday 12 December 2008 – 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.

 

Speaking at the 2nd annual lecture on Malaria and Human Rights, organised by Malaria Consortium, a member of the European Alliance Against Malaria, Dr van Tulleken highlighted the critical need to ensure community engagement and understanding when delivering health services. Unless community participation is ensured, he argued, then delivering health services like malaria treatment may have unintended consequences.

 

Drawing on experience working in Burma after Cyclone Nargis and in Congo Brazzaville, Dr van Tulleken highlighted the key components of a rights-based approach to delivering aid for public health, emphasising that interventions should not only be participatory, but also context-specific, non-discriminatory, accountable, accessible to the poorest and of high quality. “There is a clear need to address the needs of the individual while trying to optimise wellbeing for communities. We should not impose rights frameworks – if they may jeopardize the autonomy of indigenous peoples, for example - but we should be bound to inform those with whom we work of their fundamental rights and deliver care based on our duties and not beneficence” he said. 

 

In his summing up, the Chair, Sunil Mehra, Executive Director of Malaria Consortium, said that “equality and dignity are at the core of what our response as health care actors in the developing world should be.”

 

The Lecture was attended by representatives from human rights organisations, academia, media, international humanitarian and development NGOs and the private and public sectors.

 

A transcript of Dr van Tulleken’s speech will be available soon at www.malariaconsortium.org

 

From the 8^th to the 10^th December 2008, EAAM representatives participated to the Global Fund Partnership Forum in Dakar, Senegal. The Forum was entitled “Listening to the Voices: Stronger and More Effective Partnership for Sustained Impact”.

 

The discussions aimed at identifying ways to further improve the collaboration between the different public and private partners of the Global Fund at national, regional and global levels.  The side workshops that took place in the framework of the event focused on several themes such as Partnership and Gender, Partnership and Demand, Partnership and Coordination and Partnership and Implementation. These translated in a set of recommendations presented to the participants during the Forum’s last plenary session.

 

Please click here to view the forum's recommendations.

 

Event co-hosted by UNAIDS, Action for Global Health, Countdown 2015, European Alliance against Malaria, WHO, the World Bank and the Global Fund

 

On the occasion of the European Development Days we are organising an event to discuss the role of local governance and participation in reaching the health MDGs.  Experts from civil society, government sector and multilateral agencies will stimulate a debate about the role of local governance, including governance capacity of civil society, in the achievement of the health MDGs. Different concepts and approaches on local governance such as national health plans, country coordinating mechanisms and international health partnerships will be put on trial.

 

When: Sunday, 16 November, 16.30 – 18.30 

Where: Palais de Congrès, Salon Leicester, First Floor

Interpretation: English and French

 

Speakers:

 

Dorothée Kinde-Gazard, Chair Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCM) of the Global Fund, Former  Minister of Health, Benin- European Alliance Against Malaria

Local Governance and Strengthening Health Systems: the example of malaria control programme to increase access to commodities and to quality services

 

Nono Simelela, Director of the Technical Knowledge and Support Division, International Planned Parenthood Federation, UK

Reproductive Health Supplies and Local Governance

 

Cheick Tidiane Tall, Executive Director, African Council of AIDS Service Organizations

Instruments to support local governance and participation in health

 

Marielle Hart, Action for Global Health, Belgium

Aid Effectiveness and health: strengthening local governance through meaningful involvement of civil society

 

Representatives from the World Bank, WHO and UNAIDS will be present.

 

Please contact Aude Galli, Advocacy Officer, European Alliance Against Malaria, by Monday 10^th November should you want to participate to this event .  

 

For more information, please visit the European Development Days website

 

To download an English version of the invitation, click here

To download a French version of the invitation, click here

 

On Tuesday 21^st October, EAAM under the French Presidency and with the support of the French Permanent Representation to the EU, organized an informative session on “Innovative Funding Mechanisms: Bridging the gap to achieve the MDGs”.

 

The session specifically aimed at exploring existing innovative funding mechanisms, originated to address Health MDGs. It offered an opportunity to share lessons learnt and to look at new innovative funding opportunities such as the Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria (AMFm). The session was attended by Permanent Representatives of various European Countries including Germany, Italy and Belgium, and several Civil Society Organizations working on health. It was hosted by the French Permanent Representation of the EU. After the presentations a time for questions and answers was open. Click here to see the minutes of the debate.

 

For more information on Innovative Financing Mechanisms, click here.

 

Speakers and Presentations

 

UNITAID- the Air ticket Levy

Dr. Jorge Bermudez, Executive Secretary of UNITAID

 

Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria (AMFm)

Mr. Jean-Paul Moatti, Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Senior Advisor to the Executive Director, M. Michel Kazatchkine

Mr. Jan Van Erps, Roll Back Malaria Senior Advisor to the Executive Director Dr. Awa Marie Coll-Seck

 

The Debt2Health initiative

Mrs. Susane Luithen, Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria , Communications Advisor Innovative Financing

 

Tuesday 16^th September, 10am – 17pm

WHO-UN House, Rue Montoyer 14, Brussels

 

The Red Cross/EU office, as a member of the European Alliance Against Malaria, is organizing a one day roundtable on “Malaria and Health System Strengthening: at the right time with the right drugs, achieving universal access by 2010”.

The roundtable specifically aims at contributing to the European Commission paper on Health System Strengthening.

Stepping up investment in health systems is crucial if we are to meet MDGs health targets. It is particularly true in Africa. If access to good-quality health services can be increased and sustained, this will have major benefits for malaria control and will positively impact efforts to control other diseases as well.

How can disease and programme specific activities support the development of health-systems and vice-versa? Disease-based donors, such as the Global Fund and GAVI, both agreed last year to allow specific funding for health systems, showing that vertical interventions have a key role to play in strengthening health systems. Therefore, it is a historic opportunity to use the present momentum and resources to strengthen Health Systems and make further progress towards Universal access. All financing and programmes mechanisms can work together to improve health outcomes for all.

To move forward, the debate needs more substance and evidence. In that context, a roundtable bringing together academics, development organizations, the EC, the UN and the private sector, is essential to discuss how health systems can be reinforced and what strategies can be adopted, by countries and internationally, to address the problem. Decision-makers and civil society can work together to design and implement practical measures to support efficient health systems.

Please find attached the concept note and the programme of the event. For any further details, and to confirm your attendance by 1^st September - as the number of seats is limited – please contact Aude Galli, +32 (0)2 235 09 11 / ag(at)redcross-eu.net

 

Concept note

 

Programme

 

PPT PRESENTATIONS

 

Morning session

 

WHO framework for actions on HSS 2007 (PDF)

Dr. Badara Samb, Health Systems and Services Unit - WHO HQ

 

The private sector as a service provider:’ The Business of health in Africa’ (PDF)

Mr. Emmett Moriarty, Health and Education Department

World Bank - IFC

 

Disease-based donors: role of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in strengthening health system (PDF)

Mr. Stefano Lazzari, Director, Health Advisory Unit,

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

 

Education and community/ home health based approach (PDF)

Mr. Adama N. Diarra, President of Mali Red Cross and General Director of the National Solidarity Fund, Ministry of Social Development

 

The role of national government and decentralization (PDF)

Pr Dorothée Kinde-Gazard, Honorable Minister of Health of Benin, Chairperson of the Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCM) of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

 

Role of the delivery system: accelerating health product commercialization (PDF)

Pr Peter Singer, Co-Director, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University of Toronto

 

Health Systems Strengthening and Malaria Control: Making it a reality - The Example of the 'Clover' Project (PDF)

Mr. Andrew Collins

Irish Aid

 

Afternoon session

 

Financing barriers to health care in Mali (PDF)

Dr. Mit Philips, General Direction

MSF

 

Social protection: improve financial access to health

Mrs. Elodie Montétagaud, European Union Presidency,

French Department of Health Policy and Social Protection

 

Affordable Medicine Facility – Malaria: A Major opportunity for Strengthening Health Systems (PDF)

Mr. Jan Van Erps, Senior Advisor, Roll Back Malaria

 

Presentation of EC related policies (PDF)

Mr. Juan Garay

European Commission, DG Development, Human development, social cohesion and employment Unit

 

EC study on ‘Integrating diseases specific programmes into Health Systems’ (PDF)

Dr. Jean-Pierre Unger 

 

The Friends of the Global Fund Europe association which I have chaired since its establishment in 2005 aims to raise awareness among opinion leaders and to mobilize energy and resources in support of initiatives to fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

 

The Friends of the Global Fund Europe, who are members of the European Alliance Against Malaria, are jointly organizing, together with the Global Fund and Roll Back Malaria Partnership, a series of events in Paris to raise awareness about malaria and the means available to fight it.

 

Our aim is to forge a strong movement in favour of fighting this pandemic which each year kills more than one million people, mainly women and their children. We have the wherewithal at the moment to fight it and to help families and countries which are afflicted by this disease to haul their way out of poverty.

 

Five events are being held in Paris from September 9-28 to act against malaria:

 

On September 9, a round table will bring together members of the parliament from France, Europe and developing countries to discuss financing needs in the fight against malaria and challenges that have to be overcome.

 

On September 10, a meeting will bring together national coalitions fighting malaria both from Europe and countries in the South so that they can share experiences and launch a partnership

 

On September 11, a breakfast meeting will discuss the role of private sector companies and of co-investment initiatives in the fight against malaria.

 

Also on September 11, researchers in human, economic and social sciences will draw up recommendations on a new mechanism to provide access to anti-malaria medication for the very poorest.

 

Finally, shining a light on all these events, a photo exhibition entitled “Bad Air” will be held on the Pont des Arts in Paris from September 9-28, 2008.

 

The exhibition will be inaugurated by President Nicolas Sarkozy. Participants to the ceremony will also include: Bernard Kouchner, Foreign Affairs Minister, Roseline Bachelot, Minister for Health, Youth and Sports, Christine Albanel, Minister of Culture and Communication, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Secretary of State for European Affairs, Alain Joyandet, Secretary of State for Cooperation and for Francophone countries, Rama Yade, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Human Rights, and Bertrand Delanoë, Mayor of Paris. European health ministers, ministers from developing countries, European Members of the Parliament, distinguished academics, researchers, business leaders and heads of major national and international organisations are also expected to take part in the events.

For more information click here

 

On the 25^th of April 2008, the international community will mark the first World Malaria Day.

 

World Malaria Day was established and approved at the 60th World Health Assembly(WHA) in March 2007. It replaces Africa Malaria Day which was first commemorated in 2001. Africa Malaria Day was declared by African leaders committed to rolling back malaria and meeting the United Nations malaria-related Millennium Development Goals.  

World Malaria Day provides a unique opportunity to raise awareness of the devastating consequences of the disease and to mobilise all sectors of society across the world. It is also a day for partners to reflect on and share experiences, to initiate or further exchanges and collaborations, and to show how the malaria burden has been reduced by highlighting malaria control success stories.

 

Investing in Malaria Pays

 

On the first World Malaria Day, the European Alliance Against Malaria (EAAM) has chosen to emphasise that “Investing in Malaria Pays”. The EAMM believes that it makes clear economic sense for both endemic and donor countries to invest in malaria; it furthers poverty reduction efforts and contributes to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). One of the key prerequisites for lifting people and continents out of poverty is better health; therefore progress in meeting the malaria targets in the MDGs will have a direct and positive impact on achieving the other development goals.

For more information about the EAAM message, read our World Malaria Day factsheet

 

Supporting the official World Malaria Day theme “Malaria a Disease Without Borders”, EAAM is calling for:

• Long term and sustained political commitment, action and resources to fight malaria
• Increased and more effective funding from the EU and European donor countries
• Improved policy and programmes in both donor and malaria-endemic countries 
• Better coordination amongst the malaria community and initiatives
• Better access to affordable malaria prevention tools and treatments/drugs for those who most need them
• Long term commitment to R&D including implementation research

In this context, the European Alliance Against Malaria is planning a certain number of activities around World Malaria Day:

 

BRUSSELS   

 

23 April: A working lunch buffet will be held in the European Parliament (Strasbourg). The event will be hosted by EPF Malaria Taskforce member Hon. Thierry Cornillet and Hon. Anne Van Lancker, MEP, EPF President. The key speakers, including a representative from the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a representative from the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and the CEO of the Kenya NGO Alliance Against Malaria (Kenaam) will present the challenges and the current global efforts in the fight against malaria as well as the good results obtained up to now, emphasising the fact that “Investing in Malaria pays’. 

 

GERMANY

 

21/22 April: International Malaria-Symposium "Joining Forces, Synergising Action", Bonn

 

23 April, Berlin: Parliamentary Hearing on malaria in the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development

23 April, Berlin: Background discussion with malaria experts and journalists

 

25th April, Berlin: EAAM public event, Anti-Malaria Fair - 'Beat-the-Anopheles' ("ring-the-bell' in English). The event will aim at presenting the story of people living with malaria or in malaria-stricken countries.

FRANCE

 

22 April: Malaria Conference at the Pasteur Institute. The event will focus on the latest news related to malaria (science, scaling up and access, commitments).

 

21-25 April:  Concerts

 

26-27 April: Street communications, plays, booths

 

UK

 

25 April: Half day Conference with African Women’s Welfare Association

 

SPAIN

           

25 April, Barcelona: Press conference with Dr. Pedro Alonso and Mr. Juan Manuel Suárez del Toro, President of the Spanish Red Cross.

 

20-27 April: RC volunteers will distribute information material, Regional press conferences will be held.

 

Useful Links

Roll Back Malaria (available in English and French)

Mobilising for Malaria (available in English and French)

 

On 21 and 22 April 2008 the European-African Malaria Campaign Stop Malaria Now! in cooperation with the German Red Cross and the German Foundation for World Population as German members of the European Alliance against Malaria host a high-level international malaria conference in the run-up to Africa Malaria Day 2008.

 

For more information about this event, click here.

 

Malaria Consortium, on behalf of the UK Coalition Against Malaria and the European Alliance Against Malaria, is organising the first Annual Lecture on Malaria and Human Rights, which will take place on Monday 10 December at 6:45pm in London.

The Lecture will be delivered by Professor Paul Hunt, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, who will be speaking on the links between poverty, malaria and the right to health.

 

Invitation

 

16/18 October 2007 - Speaking at a forum of leading malaria scientists and policymakers from around the world, Bill and Melinda Gates called for a global commitment to eradicating the disease, which kills more than one million people—most of them African children—every year.

Bill and Melinda Gates called for a global commitment to eradicating malaria, urging scientists and policymakers from around the world to help chart a long-term course to end the deadly disease.

 

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22 October 2007 - The European Alliance Against Malaria, the Red Cross / EU Office and the World Health Organization are organizing a half-day roundtable on “Climate Change and Health: repercussions and responses in the developing world” in Brussels on 22 October 2007, from 13.30 to 17.30 - Read More

• Background document on the conference
• Programme
• Speakers' bio
• List of participants
• Minutes of the conference

Presentations: you will find hereunder a PDF version of the presentations made by the key note speakers of the conference

• "Climate change and health" by Dr. Bettina Menne, IPCC
• "Mapping malaria" by Prof. Christopher Thomas, Aberystwyth University
• "The Red Cross/Red Crescent response" by Dr. Calvi-Parisetti, IFRC
• "Mainstreaming climate change in health programs" by Dr. Sinho Sanjay, CARE
• "Early warning systems and monitoring health effects of climate change" by Dr. Maria Neira, WHO
• "Climate change challenges" by Mr. Juan Garay, DG Development
• "Climate change and health repercussions and responses in the developing world" by Mr. Christian Farrar-Hockley, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL)

10 septembre 2007 - L'association des « Amis du Fonds Mondial Europe », membre de l'Alliance européenne contre le paludisme, organise, dans le cadre de ce partenariat, une conférence sur le paludisme au Palais du Luxembourg intitulée « FAIRE PLUS ET MIEUX ENSEMBLE CONTRE LE PALUDISME » - En savoir plus

• Télécharger le programme de la conférence