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Awa Marie Coll-Seck

Title Executive Director
Organization Roll Back Malaria

Awa Marie Coll-Seck is executive director of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership. RBM is a global partnership founded in 1998 by WHO, UNDP, UNICEF, and the World Bank, with the goal of halving the world’s malaria burden by 2010. She is a professor of infectious diseases and an expert in public health and tropical medicine.

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World Malaria Day: Time to Roll Back Malaria

April 25, 2011 / Awa Marie Coll-Seck

Today is World Malaria Day. As a mother of four, medical doctor, former minister of health of Senegal, and now executive director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, I have spent an important part of my personal life and professional career combating malaria and its devastating effects.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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