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    The document summarizes an African summit on rolling back malaria that took place in Abuja, Nigeria in April 2000. Malaria accounts for over 1 million deaths in Africa each year, primarily among children and pregnant women. It also reduces economic productivity. African leaders had signed agreements beginning in 1997 to combat malaria through increasing access to insecticide-treated bed nets, effective treatments, and community education. The summit aimed to strengthen these efforts to help 60% of those at risk access prevention and treatment for malaria by 2000 through country-level implementation. Partners at the summit included African governments, international organizations, and donor countries.

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    The document summarizes an African summit on rolling back malaria that took place in Abuja, Nigeria in April 2000. Malaria accounts for over 1 million deaths in Africa each year, primarily among children and pregnant women. It also reduces economic productivity. African leaders had signed agreements beginning in 1997 to combat malaria through increasing access to insecticide-treated bed nets, effective treatments, and community education. The summit aimed to strengthen these efforts to help 60% of those at risk access prevention and treatment for malaria by 2000 through country-level implementation. Partners at the summit included African governments, international organizations, and donor countries.

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    The document summarizes an African summit on rolling back malaria that took place in Abuja, Nigeria in April 2000. Malaria accounts for over 1 million deaths in Africa each year, primarily among children and pregnant women. It also reduces economic productivity. African leaders had signed agreements beginning in 1997 to combat malaria through increasing access to insecticide-treated bed nets, effective treatments, and community education. The summit aimed to strengthen these efforts to help 60% of those at risk access prevention and treatment for malaria by 2000 through country-level implementation. Partners at the summit included African governments, international organizations, and donor countries.

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    The document summarizes an African summit on rolling back malaria that took place in Abuja, Nigeria in April 2000. Malaria accounts for over 1 million deaths in Africa each year, primarily among children and pregnant women. It also reduces economic productivity. African leaders had signed agreements beginning in 1997 to combat malaria through increasing access to insecticide-treated bed nets, effective treatments, and community education. The summit aimed to strengthen these efforts to help 60% of those at risk access prevention and treatment for malaria by 2000 through country-level implementation. Partners at the summit included African governments, international organizations, and donor countries.

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    AFRICAN SUMMIT ON ROLL BACK MALARIA

    24-25 APRIL 2000


    NICON HILTON HOTEL
    ABUJA NIGERIA

    THE MALARIA SCOURGE


    • Malaria accounts for about 10% of Africa’s disease burden and more than one
    million deaths every year.
    • A child dies every 30seconds as a result of malaria. The majority who die are
    children of Africa.
    • Malaria prevents children from attending school and retards children’s learning.
    • Women are four times as likely to suffer from malaria during pregnancy than at
    any other time resulting in low-birth babies, miscarriages and still-births.

    BURDEN OF MALARIA ON PRODUCTIVITY

    • Malaria worsens the poverty of African nations:


    - It prevents adults from working; malaria patients can be ill for 5 to 20 days
    at a time.
    - Families spend an average of one-quarter of their income on malaria
    treatment.

    • The cost of malaria control and treatment drains African nations south of the
    Sahara spent over US $2 billion on malaria control.

    LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES

    • In June 1997 African Heads of State signed the Harare Declaration on Malaria.
    • In 1998 the African initiative on Malaria was endorsed by the African
    Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP and the World
    Bank launched the Roll Back Malaria Initiative.
    • Since 1998, UNICEF has promoted the use of Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) in
    Nigeria. Over 32,000 ITNs have been supplied to 10,664 households.
    • To further concretize these achievements, President Olusegun Obasanjo of
    Nigeria initiated the African Summit on Roll Back Malaria to be held in Abuja,
    Nigeria from 24-25 April 2000.

    WHAT IS ROLL BACK MALARIA?


    The Roll Back Malaria partnership is a new social movement that aims at building and
    strengthening the capacity of health services to help communities tackle the malaria
    problems. It focuses special attention on women and children in poor communities. RBM
    is predicated on the following principles:
    • People at risk can prevent malaria, if they sleep under insecticide treated mosquito
    nets.
    • Pregnant women can take medicines to prevent and treat malaria.
    • People can treat and cure malaria with a wide variety of effective medicines if
    they seek and receive treatment early.
    • Families and communities can be empowered to predict, prevent and contain
    malaria epidemics.

    KEY ELEMENTS OF RBM


    • Low cost insecticide treated bednets.
    • Genuine, effective and affordable medicines.
    • Timely and accurate information at household and community levels.

    THE NEW COMMITMENT


    Africans Heads of State are showing a new commitment to eradicate malaria from the
    continent: through their ready acceptance and active participation in the Summit. This
    new commitment, however, will be more beneficial if it is matched with:
    • A rededication to the principles and targets of the Harare Declaration.
    • Provision of human and capital resources for country level actions.
    • Implementation of strategies and actions agreed upon at the Summit.
    • Networking with NGOs towards the realization of stated targets.
    • Creation of an enabling environment that will permit increased participation of
    international partners.

    THE GOAL
    BY the year 2000:
    • At least 60% of those suffering from malaria should have prompt access to
    affordable and appropriate treatment.
    • At least 60% of those at risk of malaria, particularly pregnant women, should
    benefit from the most suitable combination of personal and community protective
    measures.
    • At least 60% of all pregnant women who are at risk of malaria, especially those in
    their first pregnancies, should have access to effective treatment.

    SUMMIT PARTNERS
    • Federal Republic of Nigeria.
    • African Heads of State.
    • Heads of 10 international and bilateral agencies.
    • United Nations agencies particularly WHO, UNICEF, UNDP and the World Bank.
    • Development and Health Ministers of Organization of Economic Cooperation and
    Development (OECD).

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