| Date | 4 November 2002 |
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Agenda item 29
2001-2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, particularly in Africa
Report of the Secretary-General (A/57/123)
Mr. Atta (Egypt)
Malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis have become major public health challenges; they impede development efforts in many countries. The United Nations, by its resolution 55/284 declared this the Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, particularly in Africa. To be sure, we support the mobilization of every possible effort to combat AIDS, but we need similar efforts to fight malaria, which a World Health Organization (WHO) report indicates is spreading widely and causing severe social and economic damage analogous to that caused by AIDS.
Reports also show that malaria is spreading in more than 100 countries, with 40 per cent of the world's population, over a wide area that extends through Africa, Central and South America, South-East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, some European countries and the western Pacific. Among the 300 to 500 million cases, 90 per cent are in Central, East and West Africa. Of the more than 1 million who die annually of malaria, most are children, due to their weak immune systems. It is indeed sad and painful that one child dies of malaria every 30 seconds.
That is painful not just because of the high incidence of malaria among the elderly and children but also because malaria is a disease that can easily be treated if diagnosed early. Providing medicine for treatment to those who cannot afford to buy it, especially in African countries, should be more important than commercial interests. In many African countries malaria is an economic and social problem, not just a health problem. It affects the productivity of individuals and their ability to earn enough to support their families. Studies have shown that some African countries lose 22 per cent of their working hours because of malaria. In some cases, malaria has stricken 25 per cent of the population.
Malaria also prevents children from going to school and thus limits their ability to build their future. It is thus undermining the future as well as the present. Statistics prove that malaria is both a result and a cause of poverty. There is a huge gap between the resources needed to deal with the causes of the disease in developing countries and the material wealth and human resources those countries possess.
WHO estimates that $1 billion should be spent, in addition to what is being spent now, to attain the objectives of the Decade. It is not expected that the gap can be bridged without a sustained increase in official development assistance in the field of health, and without easing the burden of servicing. That would enable countries to free more resources to deal with the diseases that threaten their communities, especially malaria.
I would like to refer here to the important recommendations included in the report of the Secretary-General on this item (A/57/123). The delegation of Egypt supports the Secretary-General's call for increased support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and for increased bilateral assistance in combating malaria.
If one child dies of malaria every 30 seconds, I call on all Governments, especially the donor community, to do some simple arithmetic and calculate how many died while I was delivering my statement, how many will die as we deliberate on this item and how many will have to die before the international community moves to eradicate this easily treated disease by providing the necessary medicine. All we need is a small fraction of what the world spends every day on armaments and on building up arsenals that will eventually be used -- when and against whom no one knows.
Mr. Menan (Togo)
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| /data/vhost/www.undemocracy.com/docs/trunk.py in |
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