Two special issues of the IFEX Communiqu , a weekly newsletter, will be published during the week of May 3 and the following week. The publications will focus on events organized in as many countries as possible. Every thirty seconds a child dies from Malaria. Malaria is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases. Nearly one million people die from malaria each year in Africa alone, most of them children.
Malaria has severe negative effects on maternal health and birth outcomes.
It seeks to work with governments, other development agencies, NGOs, and private sector companies to reduce the human and socio-economic costs of malaria. The RBM goal is to halve malaria mortality by 2010. Roll Back Malaria seeks to reduce the burden of malaria by providing particular support to four types of interventions, which have been shown to reduce illness and death. During this meeting the dominant message was the need for more active involvement of the different sectors of society - particularly NGOs. This is yet another example of a global challenge where there is a need for unity and collaboration amongst the various international players.