Shooting beyond the skies: Cameroon celebrates WMD 2010 in grand style
31 May 2010
The 2010 edition of the World Malaria Day (WMD) has come and gone with much to write home about. The commemoration of the 2010 WMD activities in Cameroon saw an increase in mobilising efforts and resources towards a malaria-free Cameroon. The government through the Ministry of Public Health and its National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) in collaboration with partners put their hands on deck to continue combating the killer disease - in a bid to meet up with 2010 targets of the universal access to malaria commodities by stepping up country funding and resource utilisation. The Ministries of the Women’s Empowerment & the Family, Social Affairs, Sports & Physical Education, Higher Education and others joined in the celebration to commemorate the 3rd edition of the WMD and to contribute their own quota to the fight against malaria.
There were innovations this year such as the launching of the CCAM’s first-ever Practical Guide on Malaria Control in Cameroon; a series of solidarity marches organised in some key towns in Cameroon thanks to the United Against Malaria (UAM) initiative aimed at marrying soccer and the fight against malaria. There were heightened efforts from partners as seen in COTCO’s Integrated Malaria Project on the Cameroon-Chad pipeline corridor, visible signs of MTN’s investment in the fight against malaria through billboard ads and among others.
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