BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei Darussalam: The 18 leaders in East Asia have endorsed the creation of an Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (APLMA) to unite countries and promote regional political leadership and collaboration against the disease.

APLMA aims to reduce malaria cases and deaths by 75% by 2015 and to contain the spread of drug resistant forms of the parasite by expanding the fight against the illness beyond the health sector into the arenas of regional trade, transportation, migration, and rural industries such as agriculture, mining and forestry.

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