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INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE MALARIA POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE WHO: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Saturday, 5th of May 2012

• INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE MALARIA POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE WHO: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Abstract

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.

 

Malaria Journal 2012, 11:137

 

Robert D Newman (newmanr@who.int)

 

Article URL http://www.malariajournal.com/content/11/1/137 or

http://www.malariajournal.com/content/pdf/1475-2875-11-137.pdf

 

Malaria Journal

Malaria Policy Advisory Committee and Secretariat1

Robert Newman1

* Corresponding author Email: newmanr@who.int

1 Global Malaria Programme, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, CH-

1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland