UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment of Ray Chambers of the United States as his Special Envoy for Malaria and for the Financing of the Health-Related Millennium Development Goals. The announcement noted that Mr. Chambers has served as the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Malaria since February 2008.  During that time, “visibility, awareness, and funding for malaria have increased exponentially, with more than $4 billion raised, over 400 million mosquito nets distributed and millions of treatment courses administered.  Yet, malaria continues to kill an African child every minute.  With a further push, deaths can be brought down to near zero by the end of 2015.”  In his new capacity and focus on financing, Mr. Chambers “will collaborate with United Nations agencies, funds and programmes to promote and secure increased investment by the public and private sectors to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals of child and maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases by the end of December 2015, the internationally agreed deadline for achieving the Goals.”

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