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RBM E-Newsletter [October 2011]The RBM E-Newsletter is a monthly publication of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership. Top story Roll Back Malaria report heralds record success and anticipates near-zero malaria deaths in next decade if efforts sustained
Highlights RBM Partnership Celebrates a Decade of Partnership and Progress
Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland looks back on a decade of progress in malaria control
Partner spotlight The RBM Partnership has set new ambitious goals
What we're reading Three Reports Evaluate Global Progress To Meet MDGs 4 And 5Analysing Commitments to Advance the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: an updated systematic analysis No child out of reach. Time to end the health worker crisis Malaria prevention strategies cut killer bacterial infectionsAn article published in The Lancet suggests that interventions targeting malaria, such as insecticide-treated bed nets, antimalarial drugs and mosquito control, could substantially reduce cases of bacteraemia, which kill hundreds of thousands of children each year in Africa and worldwide. Community Participatory Methods : Positive, Negative or Negligible Benefits for the CommunityA blog discusses the impact of community participatory methods on public health.
About the E-Newsletter The RBM E-Newsletter is a forum to share malaria news and resources. If you have a submission for the newsletter, please contact us. The E-Newsletter is produced by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, which brings together more than 500 private and public sector partners to mobilize coordinated action against malaria worldwide.
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New online resources RBM: 2011 Country Roadmaps - September Update (in French) RBM: supporting materials for Global Fund Round 11 proposals (in French) ..................................... Upcoming events 9-12 October 2011: Sixth EDCTP Forum 10-11 October 2011: Summit on the Global Agenda 2011 10-12 October 2011: MDG-6 Forum 10-14 October: WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific: sixty-second session 13-14 October 2011: Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria Ad Hoc Committee 16-17 October 2011: Bill & Melinda Gates Forum on Malaria Elimination 23-26 October 2011: World Health Summit 2011 24-26 October 2011: The Global Fund Policy and Strategy Committee 26-28 October 2011: 11th Harmonization Working Group meeting 1-2 November 2011: MMV 30th Board Meeting More events on the RBM Calendar ..................................... |
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A report released on 12 September revealed that global malaria deaths have dropped by an estimated 38%, with 43 countries (11 of them in Africa) cutting malaria cases or deaths by 50% or more, reversing the trend of the previous decade and saving over a million lives.
On the eve of the United Nations General Assembly, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Dr Asha-Rose Migiro and Prof Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership hosted an event gathering Heads of State, First Ladies, Ministers of Health and Foreign Affairs , leading agencies and a multitude of RBM partners to reflect on the remarkable progress made in malaria control over the last 10 years. 
Interview with Dr Brundtland, Former WHO Director-General and one of the main architects of the RBM partnership.
Interview with Dr Robert Newman, Director of the World Health Organisation's Global Health Programme and with Mr David Brandling-Bennett, Deputy Director of the Malaria program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.