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Latest Releases

• Health Leaders Urge G8 Parliamentarians to Deliver on Health Commitments to Africa (2 July 2008)
  Roll Back Malaria Partners called on Members of Parliaments from G8 countries to invest in one of the top five most cost-effective health interventions - malaria control.

• European Alliance against Malaria Issues Stark Reminder of Millennium Development Goals (16 June 2008)
  Despite some progress in reducing child mortality as part of the MDGs, each year hundreds of thousand of children continue to die from this preventable and curable disease.

• Zambezi Expedition Highlights Challenges and Opportunities (6 June 2008)
  The Roll Back Malaria Zambezi Expedition showcased as a successful model of a public private partnership that could be replicated for tackling other development challenges in the future.

• House Foreign Affairs Committee Expands U.S. Leadership on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (28 February 2008)

• Olyset® Net Factory Opens in Tanzania: Long-lasting Mosquito Bednets Made in Africa, by Africans, for Africans (8 February 2008)

• Global Health and Business Leaders Announce Effort to Rapidly Expand Malaria Control (25 January 2008)

• Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria Launches Corporate Champions Program (21 January 2008)

• UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Health Calls on All Actors to Fulfil their Human Rights Duties in the Fight against Malaria (11 December 2007)

• Global malaria community in Ethiopia to plan intensified battle against disease (28 November 2007)

• Global Fund Announces Record Figure of $471 Million for Malaria Grants (12 November 2007)

• New Innovation Grants Boost Malaria Advocacy Efforts in Africa (5 November 2007)

• Government Of Madagascar and Coalition of Global Partners Launch Measles and Malaria Prevention Campaign (23 October 2007)

• UNICEF Report Shows Significant Progress in Fight against Malaria (17 October 2007)

• World Bank Group Report on Malaria in Africa Highlights Progress Towards Goal of Significantly Reducing Malaria Deaths
  (11 October 2007)

• Donors Provide US$9.7 Billion to the Global Fund (27 September 2007)

• Malaria Voice Grows at the Global Fund (September 2007)

• WHO Releases New Guidance on Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Nets (16 August 2007)

• Targeting Mosquito Antigens Can Block Malaria Transmission (August 2007)

• Clinton Foundation Launches Pilot ACT Subsidy to Improve Malaria Treatment in Tanzania (23 July 2007)

• United Nations Foundation, Luol Deng, and Chicago Bulls call on Chicago to Lead Emergency Effort to Provide Anti-Malaria nets to Families in Chad (17 July 2007)

• Roll Back Malaria: Millennium Development Goals Press Release (4 July 2007)

• Roll Back Malaria: African Communities Call on G8 to Honor Their Commitment to Fight Malaria (June 2007)