CD26.R30: Hemispheric plan for the promotion and support of malaria programs

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26th DIRECTING COUNCIL

31st SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE

THE 26th DIRECTING COUNCIL,

Bearing in mind Resolution XVIII of the XX Pan American Sanitary Conference, in which 1980 is

declared the "Year of Frontal Struggle with Malaria in the Americas";

Considering that the III Meeting of Directors of the National Malaria Eradication Services in the

Americas (Mexico, 1979) laid the basis for the development of a hemispheric plan of action against

malaria (Document CD26/12, annex); and

Recognizing that progress in the campaign against this disease depends on a joint effort by all the

countries,

RESOLVES

1. To request the Director to promote, and to collaborate with the Governments in, the formulation

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2. To request the Director to draw up, on the basis of the above-mentioned resolutions and

recommendations, a plan for the promotion and support of malaria programs in the Hemisphere.

3. To urge the Governments to give top priority to the financing and implementation of those plans.

4. To request the Director and the Governments to explore all possible sources of funds for the

support of malaria activities at the national and Hemispheric levels.

5. To request the Director to report to the XXVII Meeting of the Directing Council in 1980 on the

development of this hemispheric plan, including specific components for individual countries.

Sept.–Oct. 1979 OD 167, 77