Twenty-Second RBM Board Meeting
16-18 May 2012, SWITZERLAND, Geneva/Lausanne: - At its 22nd Meeting, starting in Lausanne today, the RBM Board will consider three main issues. First, the Board will deliberate over strategies for insuring uninterrupted flow of subsidized antimalarials to countries participating in the Affordable Medicines for Malaria initiative (AMfM). Second, the Board will review the implementation plan of the resource mobilization strategy for the Global Malaria Action Plan and identify priority actions for 2013 and beyond. Finally, a new RBM Executive Director is expected to be selected. A back-to-back ministerial session, to be held on 18 May, will gather 40 ministers of malaria-endemic countries in Geneva to address identification of funding for ongoing malaria control interventions in Africa.
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Swiss Malaria Group's exhibit on malaria at the Natural History Museum in Geneva
15 May, SWITZERLAND, Geneva: -RBM Partnership Board member Minister of Health for Namibia, Dr Richard N Kamwi, joined Swiss Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Mr Didier Burkhalter and RBM Partnership Executive Director a.i., Dr Thomas Teuscher at the opening of the Swiss Malaria Group's exhibit on malaria at the Natural History Museum in Geneva. Discussion during the event focused on the importance of sustaining the gains in malaria control.
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WHO and RBM launch Global Plan for Insecticide Resistance Management in malaria vectors
15 May, SWITZERLAND, Geneva: -The WHO Global Malaria Programme and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership have launched a global plan to tackle the emerging threat of mosquito resistance to insecticides. WHO and RBM urge affected countries and stakeholders to take action to preserve the effectiveness of current vector control tools, and to ensure that a new generation of public health insecticides is made available soon.
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