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Tanzania), and that in all countries, the decreases are as-
sociated with intense malaria control interventions; 
Whereas continued national, regional, and international in-
vestment is critical to continue to reduce malaria deaths 
and to prevent backsliding in those areas where progress 
has been made; 
Whereas the United States Government has played a major 
leadership role in the recent progress made toward reduc-
ing the global burden of malaria, particularly through the 
President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and the United 
States contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, 
Tuberculosis, and Malaria; 
Whereas, on World Malaria Day in 2009, President Barack 
Obama stated, ‘‘The U.S. stands with our global partners 
and people around the world to reaffirm our commitment 
to make the U.S. a leader in ending deaths from malaria 
by 2015. . . . It is time to redouble our efforts to rid the 
world of a disease that does not have to take lives.’’; 
Whereas, under the Global Health Initiative (GHI), the 
United States Government is pursuing a comprehensive, 
whole-of-government approach to global health, focused 
on helping partner countries to achieve major improve-
ments in overall health outcomes through trans-
formational advances in access to, and the quality of, 
healthcare services in resource-poor settings; and 
Whereas recognizing the burden of malaria on many partner 
countries, PMI has set the target for 2015 of reducing 
the burden of malaria by 50 percent for 450,000,000 
people, representing 70 percent of the at-risk population 
in Africa: Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) supports the goals and ideals of World Ma-
laria Day, including the achievable target of ending 
malaria deaths by 2015; 
(2) recognizes the importance of reducing ma-
laria prevalence and deaths to improve overall child 
and maternal health, especially in sub-Saharan Afri-
ca; 
(3) commends the recent progress made toward 
reducing global malaria deaths and prevalence, par-
ticularly through the efforts of the President’s Ma-
laria Initiative and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, 
Tuberculosis, and Malaria; 
(4) welcomes ongoing public-private partner-
ships to research and develop more effective and af-
fordable tools for malaria diagnosis, treatment, and 
vaccination; 
(5) reaffirms the goals and commitments to 
combat malaria in the Tom Lantos and Henry J. 
Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/ 
AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization 
Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–293); 
(6) supports continued leadership and invest-
ment by the United States in bilateral and multilat-
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eral efforts to combat malaria as a critical part of 
the President’s Global Health Initiative; and 
(7) encourages other members of the inter-
national community to sustain and scale up their 
support and financial contributions for efforts world-
wide to combat malaria. 
Æ 
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