Launch Of The Global Malaria Report 2008

Main Category: Tropical Diseases
Article Date: 17 Sep 2008 - 4:00 PDT

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The World Health Organization (WHO) will launch this week its most comprehensive analysis of the world malaria situation.

The World Malaria Report 2008 describes the global distribution of cases and deaths, and how WHO-recommended control strategies have been adopted and implemented in endemic countries. It also details sources of funding for malaria control as well as recent evidence that prevention and treatment can alleviate the burden of disease.

A press pack, including a news release, the report highlights, country profiles, a two- page-document explaining the methodology used to produce the report, a B-Roll, the full report and the report summery in different languages, will be available here

The report and the accompanying documents can be viewed on the following protected website:

The login details are: user name: mediawmr2008
password: gmp2008

All material on this site is embargoed until 10 am (CEST) Thursday 18 September.

Journalists are also invited to attend a news conference with key speakers.

News Conference

When: Thursday 18 September 2008- 10 am

Where: Salle de presse III, Palais des Nations, Geneva

Who:

Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director general
Dr Awa Coll- Seck, Executive Secretary Roll Back Malaria Partnership
Dr Mac Otten, Coordinator, Global Malaria Programme, WHO,
Dr Peter Salama, , Chief of Health, UNICEF

All press releases, fact sheets and other WHO media material may be found at http://www.who.int

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