Roll back Malaria partnership lauds Kuwait for its support

Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBMP) and the African Union are organizing in Brussels on April 3 a high-level event on "Health in the Broader Development and Post-2015 agenda" on the sidelines of an EU-Africa summit. "Indirectly this high level event is organized thanks to the financial support that His Highness the Amir of Kuwait and the Kuwait Fund have given for the external relations activities of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership" Herve Verhoosel, the RBMP Representative at the United Nations, told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), here today. "High level advocacy and political leadership are important and the participation of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Heads of State at this event show how the work of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership is appreciated," he said. Verhoosel said he would convey this message to the ambassador of the State of Kuwait in Brussels, Dharar Abdul Razzak Razzooqi, tomorrow in a meeting and give him a report of activities of the partnership on behalf of Princess Astrid of Belgium who is RBMP's Special Representative. "We hope that both the State of Kuwait and the Kuwait fund could still support us for the coming years, as we need to finish the job and we still have a lot of work to do and children to save" said Verhoosel, who will co-moderate this high level event. Besides Ban Ki-moon, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the AU Commission, Ms. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana, and Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traore’, Executive Director of the RBM Partnership, are also expected to attend the breakfast event.