Malaria-Free Arab Peninsula Fund to hold first meeting

SANA'A, Oct. 23 (Saba) - The
fund formed to free the Arab Peninsula of malaria by 2015 is to hold its first
meeting
on Saturday in Sana'a. Member of the Executive Authority of the Gulf Cooperation
Bloc Health Council Ahmed al-Nomani said the two-day meeting, which would be
attended by
representatives from the Arabian Gulf States and Yemen, will launch practical steps
to implement its foundation goal: to free the Arabian Peninsula from malaria. The
meeting
will review the general framework of the strategic plan drawn up by the ministry of
Public Health and Population in Yemen to handle current changes and set out a future
plan
and a mechanism for implementation phases and performance indicators, he said. The
meeting will, furthermore, deal with the shares of the founders of the fund in an
attempt
to know about the sums already transferred into the executive office as well as
other financial topics. FR