    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 17 (Monday, April 30, 2007)]
    [Pages 522-523]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Proclamation 8132--Malaria Awareness Day, 2007

     April 24, 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.

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        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.
                                                    George W. Bush

     [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., April 27,
    2007]

    Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on April
    30.