News and events

• Regulatory action needed to stop the sale of oral artemisinin-based monotherapy
  Article from the latest WHO Drug Information
• Malaria control beyond 2010
  Rob Newman (Director, GMP) in an article recently published in BMJ, looks at the future for malaria control.
• Recommendations on Intermittent Preventive Treatment during infancy with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP-IPTi)
  March 2010, Geneva
  WHO recommends Intermittent Preventive Treatment for infants with SP delivered through the Expanded Program on Immunization as additional malaria control strategy in areas of moderate and high malaria transmission.
• Launch of the Global Plan for Artemisinin Resistance Containment (GPARC)
  12 January 2011
• WHO calls on malaria-endemic countries to strengthen monitoring of antimalarial drug efficacy
  18 November 2010
• Turkmenistan certified malaria-free
  19 October 2010
• Malaria report shows rapid progress towards international targets
  14 December 2010

• Technical consultation on intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi)
  March 2010
• Countries move toward more sustainable ways to roll back malaria
  6 May 2009
• Malaria diagnostic tests differ in performance
  24 April 2009
• Malaria deaths decline by 66% in Zambia
  23 April 2009
• Drug resistance could set back malaria control success
  25 February 2009
• Progress made in malaria control, yet burden is enormous
  18 September 2008
• WHO releases new guidance on insecticide-treated mosquito nets
  16 August 2007
• WHO gives indoor use of DDT a clean bill of health for controlling malaria
  15 September 2006
• WHO calls for an immediate halt to provision of single-drug artemisinin malaria pills
  19 January 2006
• World Health Organization drives efforts to boost antimalarial drug supply
  6 June 2005
• First global report on efforts to roll back malaria highlights progress and challenges
  3 May 2005