Malaria policy advisory committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations of fifth biannual meeting (March 2014)

Malaria Journal

Meeting Report

关键词: WHO;    Malaria;    Policy-making;    Mosquito control;    Drug resistance;    Surveillance;    Elimination;    Plasmodium falciparum;    Plasmodium vivax;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1475-2875-13-253

 received in 2014-06-19, accepted in 2014-06-25,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

The Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the World Health Organization (WHO) held its fifth meeting in Geneva, Switzerland from 12 to 14 March 2014. This article provides a summary of the discussions, conclusions and recommendations from that meeting.Meeting sessions covered: maintaining universal coverage of long-lasting insecticidal nets; combining indoor residual spraying with long-lasting insecticidal nets; the sound management of old long-lasting insecticidal nets; malaria diagnosis in low transmission settings; the Global Technical Strategy for Malaria (2016 -2025); and Technical Expert Group updates on vector control, the RTS,S vaccine, the Malaria Treatment Guidelines, anti-malarial drug resistance and containment, and surveillance, monitoring and evaluation.Policy statements, position statements, and guidelines that arise from the Malaria Policy Advisory Committee meeting conclusions and recommendations will be formally issued and disseminated to WHO Member States by the WHO Global Malaria Programme.

【 授权许可】

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© WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee and Secretariat; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.