WORLD MALARIA DAY

1.On 25 April is known as World Malaria Day. WHO with many countries working together to promote awareness among people to prevent mortality and morbidity as well as to eliminate malaria across the world
2.Civil society organisations across the world working together to count malaria out, making their contribution to the implementation of the global malaria action plan and achieving the goal of near zero deaths from malaria by 2015.
3.The World Malaria Day website has been established to help individuals and civil society contribute to the achievement of the Global Malaria Action Plan goals, through the establishment of a dynamic and interactive information and advocacy portal.
4.It aims to help inform, educate, mobilize and stimulate the highest possible number of stakeholders - to SHARE best practice and successes, update LIVE news and events on World Malaria Day and share the most informative and interesting links on MALARIA, the disease, treatment and prevention.
5.Until now, there has not been a medium through which civil society groups could share their work and disseminate their messages on malaria treatment and prevention on and around World Malaria Day.
6.In 2008 the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership unveiled the Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP), which sets out what needs to be achieved to meet the short, medium and long term goals of malaria control, elimination and eventual eradication.
7.On World Malaria Day, the RBM Partnership will kick-start its "Counting malaria out" campaign. This 2-year campaign will intensify global efforts to reach the first important malaria milestone by 2010 - universal coverage for all populations at risk with locally appropriate interventions for prevention and case management, and a reduction in the number of malaria cases and deaths by 50%.
8.The campaign and GMAP therefore call on all malaria endemic countries, RBM partners and donors to put extra efforts into comprehensively tracking progress in malaria prevention and treatment along the path to near-zero deaths by 2015 and the gradual elimination of malaria.
9.As a malaysian, i would like to invite all malaysian to involve in promotion of awareness campaign to eradicate malaria.
10.For further information, anyone who like to join in counting out malaria, you can go to website worldmalariaday.org