What is the global community doing to fight malaria?
NetsforLife® is part of a growing constituency of NGOs, governments and humanitarian and religious institutions focusing on combating malaria around the world. To provide a coordinated global approach to fighting malaria, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership was launched in 1998 by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank. The partnership’s goal is to reduce the burden of malaria by 50% by 2010. Controlling malaria will contribute significantly to reaching the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which all 191 United Nations member states pledged to achieve by 2015. In addition to reducing the disease burden, a successful fight against malaria will have a far-reaching impact on child mortality, maternal health and poverty, which in turn may increase global stability.
