International Malaria Conference
In the run up to the first World Malaria Day, the International Malaria Conference
“Malaria: Joining Forces, Synergising Action - Sustainable and innovative ways of ensuring long-term availability of prevention and treatment measures by 2015” took place from April 21st - 22nd 2008 in Bonn, Germany. 120 experts from 20 African, European and North-American countries analysed effective malaria control strategies, new initiatives in malaria research and development as well as innovative ways of sustainable financing for the fight against malaria in developing countries. Moreover, participants discussed the roles and activities of governments, civil society and the private sector in achieving universal access to malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment by 2015.
The conference was organised by the European-African Malaria Campaign Stop Malaria Now! in cooperation with the German Red Cross and the German Foundation for World Population as German members of the European Alliance against Malaria.
The outcome of the conference is an international position paper containing recommendations and demands for the global fight against malaria that was worked out by the participants. This Final Communiqué has been handed over to the Parliamentary State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development Karin Kortmann on World Malaria Day on April 25th 2008 at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany. Ms Kortmann received the conference´s Final Communiqué on behalf of Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development.
The communiqué has already been passed on to the German G8-sherpa on the occasion of the Civil G8 Dialogue in Kyoto. Moreover, it will serve as a basis for German civil society demands to the German government in the run up to this year´s G8 Summit in Japan.
