PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
World Malaria Day 2024 (23 April 2024)

Motion Details

That this House notes that Thursday 25 April 2024 has been designated as World Malaria Day by the World Health Organisation, marking the 17th time the day has been observed since its establishment by the World Health Assembly in 2007; further notes that this year's theme focuses on accelerating the fight against malaria for a more equitable world, drawing attention to the decline in progress toward reducing malaria globally, particularly in the WHO African Region which in 2022 accounted for 94% of malaria cases and 95% of deaths and, that on current trajectories, critical 2025 milestones of the WHO global malaria strategy for reductions in malaria cases and deaths will be missed; also notes that the disease continues to directly endanger health and cost lives, and perpetuates a vicious cycle of inequity, with people living in the most vulnerable situations including pregnant women, infants, children under five years of age, refugees, migrants, internally displaced people, and Indigenous Peoples disproportionately impacted; and calls on the UK Government to increase its focus on working towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.3 to end the malaria epidemic, and to contribute required funding at the upcoming replenishments of Gavi, the vaccine alliance and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Sponsored by:
Patrick Grady (Scottish National Party)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Scottish National Party
12
57%
 
 
Independent
3
14%
 
 
Liberal Democrat
2
10%
 
 
Conservative
2
10%
 
 
Democratic Unionist Party
1
5%
 
 
Labour
1
5%
 
Sponsor List (21 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Con
Bob Blackman
Harrow East
Con
Sir Peter Bottomley
SNP
Deidre Brock
Ind
Ian Byrne
Liverpool West Derby
LD
Wendy Chamberlain
North East Fife
LD
Daisy Cooper
St Albans
SNP
Martyn Day
SNP
Allan Dorans
Ind
Jonathan Edwards
SNP
Patrick Grady (Sponsor)
SNP
Chris Law
Dundee Central
Lab
Rachael Maskell
York Central
SNP
Stuart C McDonald
Ind
John McDonnell
Hayes and Harlington
SNP
Anne McLaughlin
SNP
Carol Monaghan
SNP
Kirsten Oswald
DUP
Jim Shannon
Strangford
SNP
Alison Thewliss
SNP
Richard Thomson
SNP
Dr Philippa Whitford

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