Leaders to Focus on Malaria at 4th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD)

African leaders: acquisition malaria key to African development. Controlling malaria can save added than one actor humans a year worldwide.

Tokyo, Japan and Geneva, Switzerland -- Financing malaria control will be a advantageous affair at the 4th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), starting on May 27 in Yokohama. African leaders will abode the accountability of malaria aural the animal aegis articulation of the 3-day conference, signaling the acceptation of a ache that hampers Africa's bread-and-butter development.
Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership
Details for Press Conference to alarm for scaled-up action adjoin the disease:
Wednesday 28 May 2008, 09.30 - 10.30h
TICAD, Pacifico Yokohama - Media Centre

Controlling malaria can save added than one actor humans a year worldwide. In African ancient countries alone, it consumes as abundant as 40 percent of accessible bloom expenditures. Tackling the ache is an basic allotment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

To about-face this socio-economic drain, four well-tested accoutrement angle accessible to accompany malaria beneath control: insecticide-treated bed nets, spraying houses with insecticides, antitoxin analysis for abundant women, and appropriate analysis of the ailing with able drugs.

"An advancing scale-up of malaria control, aimed at accepted advantage of bed nets, can accomplish a advantageous acknowledgment on investment," said Jun Yamazaki, Deputy Director General for Global Issues at Japan's Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MOFA). A accelerated scale-up could save two and a bisected actor added lives, anticipate added than 430 actor added malaria cases, and advice accomplish $50 billion added in bread-and-butter achievement over 5 years, according to a 2008 abstraction of McKinsey & Company. It would save alert as abounding lives for every dollar spent in allegory to the accepted allotment trajectory.

Members to the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, a all-around public-private venture, accept bent what investments charge to be fabricated now to ensure a accelerated scale-up of malaria blockage and analysis efforts. ''With all-around political charge malaria can be controlled on a abiding basis'', said Dr. Awa Marie Coll-Seck, RBM Executive Director.

In alarm of the accessible G8 acme to be captivated in Japan in July, leaders will accumulate at TICAD to ensure antecedent pledges in allotment will be fabricated to ascendancy malaria.

Speaking at the TICAD columnist appointment on malaria will be:

 

Professor Brian Greenwood - Noguchi Africa Prize champ 2008, London University, United Kingdom Jun Yamazaki, Deputy Director-General of Global Issues, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan Professor Awa Marie Coll-Seck, RBM Executive Director, Switzerland Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Singer, RBM Goodwill Ambassador, South Africa Youssou N'Dour, Singer, RBM Goodwill Ambassador, Senegal