The Abuja Declarations and Frameworks for Action on Roll Back Malaria was a pledge made in 2001 by members of the

African Union The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for the establishment of the Africa ...

during a conference in

Abuja, Nigeria Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ...

. In it, the member nations pledged to increase their health budget to at least 15% of the state's annual budget, and requested Western donor countries to increase their support. Tracking the progress of the efforts, the

World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of h ...

reported in 2010 that only one African country had reached that target, while 26 had increased health expenditures and 11 had reduced it. Nine others had not had a noticeable negative or positive trend.

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Abuja+12
Malaria 2001 in Nigeria African Union 2001 documents {{Africa-poli-stub