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World Malaria Day in the UK: Mobilising to Save Lives

Date: April 25th 2008

Malaria Consortium, the International Business Leaders' Forum, the Nigerian Organisation of Women and the Trades Union Congress jointly organised an event at the Trades Union Congress building, entitled "World Malaria Day in the UK: Mobilising to Save Lives". The event was chaired by Andrew Jack from the Financial Times and the panel of speakers were invited to discuss how their respective stakeholder groups worked in malaria, mobilised against malaria and could connect better with each other. Attendance was approximately 85 people.

The panel comprised of:

• Stephen O'Brien MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria, Shadow
  Minister for Health and Member of Parliament for Eddisbury (Cheshire)
• Gail Cartmail, TUC General Council and Assistant General Secretary of Unite the Union (Amicus section). To read speech, click here
• Martha Osamor, Chairperson, Nigerian Organisation of Women & African Women's Welfare Association. To download presentation, click here (1.5 MB)
• Justine Frain, VP Global Community Partnerships, GSK . To download slides, click here (3.2 MB) or full speech, click here
• Edwin Nichols, Global Constituency Manager, World AIDS Campaign . To download presentation, click here (2.5MB).

and was followed by a Q&A and lunch. A communique was signed by the participants, expressing their commitment to a malaria free world and a joint press release was sent out from the organisers.

To view the MC statement released on World Malaria Day, click here.

A World Malaria Day folder was distributed to all participants with the following items:

• Factfiles: Malaria (1MB), Malaria & Poverty (1MB), Malaria & HIV (2.1MB), Malaria & Right to Health (2.5 MB)
• World Malaria Day in the UK flyer
• On the individual organisers
  • About the Organisers
  • AWWA flyer
  • IBLF - Flyer and MDG & Business publication
  • Malaria Consortium - MC brochure (778 KB) & European Alliance Against Malaria flyer (541 KB)

World Malaria Day in the UK

Human Rights Lecture 

 

"Poverty, Malaria and the Right to Health: Exploring the Connections" by UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, 

 

Monday 10th December

 

 

Professor Paul Hunt delivering his Lecture

Photo by Jon Challicom

 

Malaria Consortium, on behalf of the UK Coalition Against Malaria and the European Alliance Against Malaria, held the first Annual Lecture on Malaria and Human Rights on Monday 10 December in London.

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

 

For more information please see

• Press release
• Paul Hunt's speech
• Paul Hunt's Offical Report on Uganda
• Malaria & Right to Health factsheet

 

 

Reports now available from the following Fringe Events:

• Conservative Party Conference "Global Health and the MDGs: What Next?" (1st October 2007)
  Download (PDF)

• Labour Party Conference "Financing the Health MDGs" (25th September 2007)
  fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/report_labour_fringe.pdfDownload (PDF)

• Liberal Democrat Party Conference "The Health MDGs: What Next?" (18th September 2007)
  fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/report_libdem_fringe.pdfDownload (PDF)

 

 

Opening remarks by Stephen O’Brien MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria, ShadowMinister for Health and Member of Parliament for Eddisbury (Cheshire)