Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations of March 2013 meeting
Abdulla, Salim, Alonso, Pedro, Binka, Fred, Graves, Patricia, Greenwood, Brian, Leke, Rose, Malik, Elfatih, Marsh, Kevin, Meek, Sylvia, Mendis, Kamini, Schapira, Allan, Slutsker, Laurence, Tanner, Marcel, Valecha, Neena, White, Nicholas, Bosman, Andrea, Cibulskis, Richard, D'Acremont, Valerie, D'Souza, Bianca, Lynch, Michael, Mnzava, Abraham, Moorthy, Vasee, Newman, Robert, Olumese, Peter, Rietveld, Aafje, and Ringwald, Pascal (2013) Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations of March 2013 meeting. Malaria Journal, 12. pp. 1-11.
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Abstract
The Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the World Health Organization met in Geneva, Switzerland from 13 to 15 March, 2013. This article provides a summary of the discussions, conclusions and recommendations from that meeting. Meeting sessions included: a review of the efficacy of artemisinin-based combination therapy in Guyana and Suriname; the outcomes from a consultation on non-malaria febrile illness; the outcomes from the second meeting of the Evidence Review Group on malaria burden estimation; an update on the review of the WHO Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria; an update regarding progress on the constitution of the vector control Technical Expert Group; updates on the RTS, S/AS01 vaccine and the malaria vaccine technology roadmap; financing and resource allocation for malaria control; malaria surveillance and the need for a surveillance, monitoring and evaluation Technical Expert Group; criteria and classification related to malaria elimination; the next meeting of the Evidence Review Group on Intermittent Preventive Treatment in pregnancy; an update on the soon-to-be launched Elimination Scenario Planning Tool; and an update on the process for the Global Technical Strategy for Malaria Control and Elimination (2016-2025). Policy statements, position statements, and guidelines that arise from the MPAC meeting conclusions and recommendations will be formally issued and disseminated to World Health Organization Member States by the World Health Organization Global Malaria Programme.
| Item ID: | 29065 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Non-Refereed Research) |
| ISSN: | 1475-2875 |
| Keywords: | WHO, malaria, policy making, treatment efficacy, fever, surveillance, standards, mosquito control, malaria vaccines, resource allocation, disease elimination, pregnancy, prevention |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 Malaria Policy Advisory Committee and Secretariat; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Funders: | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), UK Department for International Development (DFID), United States Agency for International Development (USAID) |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2013 05:32 |
| FoR Codes: | 11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1117 Public Health and Health Services > 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 92 HEALTH > 9204 Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) > 920499 Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified @ 100% |
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