Malaria Awareness Day, 2007

Proclamation 8132 of April 24, 2007

Malaria Awareness Day, 2007

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Americans are fortunate to live in a land that
eliminated malaria decades ago. Today, our country
helps fight this disease in Africa, because we believe
in the timeless truth: To whom much is given, much is
required. On Malaria Awareness Day, we renew our
commitment to helping combat malaria in Africa and
around the world.

Tragically, one child in Africa dies every 30 seconds
from malaria, a disease that is highly treatable and
preventable. To reduce malaria's mortality rate in the
hardest-hit African countries, I announced the
President's Malaria Initiative in 2005, a five-year,
$1.2 billion program. At last year's White House Summit
on Malaria, Laura and I were pleased to announce the
expansion of this initiative to several additional
countries. These efforts are making a difference, and
millions of people have already benefited from
insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor spraying, and
anti-malaria medicine.

Across our Nation, Americans are answering the call to
act. By simply donating an insecticide-treated bed net,
one individual can help save a life. For more
information about how to help and for a list of
humanitarian organizations, visit fightingmalaria.gov.

Americans are a compassionate people who care deeply
about the plight of others and the future of our world,
and we can all be proud of the work our Nation is doing
to fight disease and despair. By standing with the
people of Africa in the fight against malaria, we can
help lift a burden of unnecessary suffering, provide
hope and health, and forge lasting friendships.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United
States, do hereby proclaim April 25, 2007, as Malaria
Awareness Day. I encourage Americans to answer the
universal call to love a neighbor and join in our goal
of eradicating malaria on the African continent.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord two
thousand seven, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and thirty-first.