Inaugural meeting of the malaria policy advisory committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations

Malaria Journal

Meeting Report

关键词: Global;    Malaria;    Policy development;    WHO;    Drug resistance;    Diagnostic tests;    Mosquito control;    Elimination;    Surveillance;    Chemoprevention;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1475-2875-11-137

 received in 2012-04-04, accepted in 2012-04-30,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

The Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the World Health Organization met for the first time from 31 January to 2 February 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland. This article provides a summary of the discussions, conclusions and recommendations from that meeting, as part of the newly launched Malaria Journal thematic series “WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee: Reports and Recommendations”.Summaries are provided, referencing the relevant background documents, for the meeting sessions on global malaria control, drug resistance and containment, rapid diagnostic test procurement criteria, larviciding, classification of countries for elimination, estimating malaria cases and deaths, and seasonal malaria chemoprevention. Policy statements, position statements, and guidelines that will 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.

【 授权许可】

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© WHO; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012. 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/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.