Preventive action and intensification of the struggle against malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
1994
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SymbolA/RES/49/135
TitlePreventive action and intensification of the struggle against malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
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Summary
Endorses the new Global Malaria Control Strategy of WHO; welcomes the fact that WHO has recently increased its commitment to malaria control, especially in Africa, where the overwhelming majority both of cases and of deaths occur; also welcomes the fact that Dr. Manuel Elkin Patarroyo of Colombia generously offered in June 1993 to donate the full licence rights of his vaccine SPF-66 to WHO; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 50th session the report of the Director-General of WHO, to be prepared in collaboration with other relevant organizations, agencies, organs and programmes of the UN system, on the implementation of the present resolution, including, inter alia, answers to the many questions that still need to be addressed, as well as the utilization of an effective malaria vaccine in an integrated approach, together with other malaria-control tools, including the incorporation of appropriate technologies for malaria control, with specific attention to the results of scientific investigations concerning the latest developments in this field.
Action note1994-12-19
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 92nd meeting
Meeting record
A/49/PV.92
Agenda information
A/49/251 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council. UN. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL--REPORTS (1994)
Date[New York] : UN, 17 Feb. 1995.
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3 p.
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Adopted at the 92nd plenary meeting, 19 Dec. 1994.