Supporting Malaria Prevention and Control in the Asia Pacific Region

Apr. 25, 2014

Sumitomo Chemical will donate US$150,000 to the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN), a multilateral organization dedicated to pursuing initiatives of preventing and controlling malaria in the Asia Pacific region.

APMEN’s core mission is to eliminate malaria in the Asia Pacific region through undertaking surveys and researches or assisting in developing a host of preventive and control measures, with a particular focus on Plasmodium vivax, a malaria parasite. While encouraging its partnering institutions to promote the use of mosquito nets for malaria control, the organization is also advancing various efforts vigorously to control malaria vector mosquitos by insecticides spraying as well as to develop vaccines effective against those malaria parasites that are resistant to antimalarial medication.

Today, approximately 28 million people are infected with malaria every year in the Asia Pacific region, trailing only the Africa region in the number of people infected, which calls for adequate specific countermeasures to be taken. APMEN is seeking to carry out in the Asia Pacific region such malaria prevention and control endeavors as those deployed extensively thus far by international organizations or others in Africa. Sumitomo Chemical has constantly been supporting a variety of global initiatives aimed at malaria control or elimination as well as producing and supplying its OLYSET^TM Net mosquito nets, a preventive tool against malaria infection. The Company is supportive of the objectives of the APMEN's activities and has decided to make the donation to APMEN.

Sumitomo Chemical will continue to actively support initiatives to prevent, control or eliminate malaria while also working with relevant organizations.

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