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Malaria policies

• A practical handbook on the pharmacovigilance of antimalarial medicines
  September 2009
• A system to improve Value for Money in LLIN procurement through market competition based on cost per year of effective coverage
  Concept Note (October 2011)
• Community involvement in Rolling Back Malaria (archived)
• Community-based reduction of malaria transmission
  Informal consultation organized by the WHO Global Malaria Programme in collaboration with Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA) initiative, 3-4 February 2010
• Defeating malaria in Asia, the Pacific, Americas, Middle East and Europe
  Progress & impact series, n. 9 (November 2012)
• Disease surveillance for malaria control
  Operational manual (2012)
• Disease surveillance for malaria elimination
  Operational manual (2012)
• Draft interim recommendations on the sound management of packaging for long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs)
  Geneva, Switzerland, 1 November 2011
• Effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical forms of Artemisia annua L. against malaria
  WHO position statement (June 2012)
• Eliminating malaria: learning from the past, looking ahead
  Progress & impact series, n. 8 (October 2011)
• Emergency response to artemisinin resistance in the Greater Mekong subregion
  Regional Framework for Action 2013-2015
• Global Fund proposal development: WHO policy brief on malaria
  WHO/GMP July 2011
• Good practices for selecting and procuring rapid diagnostic tests for malaria
  May 2011
• Good procurement practices for artemisinin-based antimalarial medicines
  March 2010
• Guidelines for procuring public health pesticides
  March 2012
• Guidelines for the treatment of malaria. Second edition
  March 2010
• Inaugural meeting of the malaria policy advisory committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations
  WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee and Secretariat, Malaria Journal 2012, 11:137
• Indoor residual spraying. Use of indoor residual spraying for scaling up global malaria control and elimination (archived)
  August 2006
• Indoor residual spraying: An operational manual for IRS for malaria transmission, control and elimination
  April 2013
• Information note on recommended selection criteria for procurement of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs)
  20 December 2012
• Insecticide-treated bed nets and curtains for preventing malaria (archived)
  2004 Update
• Insecticide-treated mosquito nets: a WHO position statement (archived)
  August 2007
• Intermittent preventive treatment for infants using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP-IPTi) for malaria control in Africa: implementation field guide
  September 2011
• Long-lasting insecticidal nets for malaria prevention (archived)
  Trial Edition: A manual for malaria programme managers
• Malaria case management: operations manual
  November 2009
• Malaria elimination. A field manual for low and moderate endemic countries
  April 2007
• Malaria in pregnancy (archived)
  Guidelines for measuring key monitoring and evaluation indicators
• Malaria indicator survey: basic documentation for survey design and implementation (archived)
  Roll Back Malaria - Monitoring and evaluation reference group
• Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations of September 2012 meeting
  WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee and Secretariat, Malaria Journal 2012, 11:424
• Malaria programme reviews: a manual for reviewing the performance of malaria control and elimination programmes
  Trial edition, March 2010
• Malaria vector control: decision making criteria and procedures for judicious use of insecticides (archived)
  2002
• Management of severe malaria – A practical handbook. Third edition
  April 2013
• Methods and techniques for clinical trials on antimalarial drug efficacy: Genotyping to identify parasite populations
  Informal consultation organized by the Medicines for Malaria Venture and cosponsored by the World Health Organization, 29-31 May 2007
• Methods for field trials of malaria rapid diagnostic tests
• Methods for surveillance of antimalarial drug efficacy
  November 2009
• Pharmacovigilance guidance for countries participating in AMFm Phase 1 (archived)
  WHO-MMV joint technical consultation, 4-6 April 2009
• Position of WHO's Roll Back Malaria Department on malaria treatment policy
  November 2003
• RBM strategic plan for capacity development (archived)
  Introduction to the strategic plan for capacity development for RBM
• Recommendations on the use of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine (SP) for Intermittent Preventive Treatment during Pregnancy (IPT) in areas of moderate to high resistance to SP in the African Region (archived)
  October 2005
• Reducing the burden of anemia in infants and young children in malaria-endemic countries of Africa: from evidence to action (archived)
  Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 71(Suppl 2), 2004, pp. 25–34
• Scaling up home-based management of malaria (archived)
  From research to implementation
• Single dose Primaquine as a gametocytocide in Plasmodium falciparum malaria
  Updated WHO Policy Recommendation (October 2012)
• Specifications for netting materials
  Technical consultation on specifications and quality control of netting materials and mosquito nets, 29 November – 2 December 2005
• Specifications for netting materials (archived)
  Report of an informal consultation, WHO, Geneva, 8-9 June 2000
• Specifications for prepackaging antimalarial medicines
  Report of a WHO technical consultation, 2-4 September 2003
• T3: Test. Treat. Track.
  Scaling up diagnostic testing, treatment and surveillance for malaria
• Test procedures for insecticide resistance monitoring in malaria vector mosquitoes
  April 2013
• The Roll Back Malaria strategy for improving access to treatment through home management of malaria (archived)
• The technical basis for coordinated action against insecticide resistance: preserving the effectiveness of modern malaria vector control Global Malaria Programme
  Meeting report, Geneva 4-6 May 2010
• The use of DDT in malaria vector control
  WHO position statement, May 2011
• Towards quality testing of malaria rapid diagnostic tests: evidence and methods
  Developed from the proceedings of two consultations held in March and June 2006
• Transporting, storing and handling malaria rapid diagnostic tests at central and peripheral storage facilities
• Transporting, storing and handling malaria rapid diagnostic tests in health clinics
• Universal access to malaria diagnostic testing / Accès universel aux tests diagnostiques du paludisme
  An operational manual 2011 / Manuel pratique
• Updated WHO policy recommendation: intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP)
  October 2012
• WHO interim position statement – the role of larviciding for malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa
  April 2012
• WHO policy brief for the implementation of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP)
  April 2013
• WHO Policy recommendation on Intermittent Preventive Treatment during infancy with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP-IPTi) for Plasmodium falciparum malaria control in Africa
  March 2010
• WHO policy recommendation: seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) for Plasmodium falciparum malaria control in highly seasonal transmission areas of the Sahel sub-region in Africa
  March 2012
• WHO position statement on integrated vector management
  May 2008

Treatment policies

• Anti-malaria drug policies: WHO African Region
• Anti-malaria drug policies: WHO Region of the Americas
• Anti-malaria drug policies: WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
• Anti-malaria drug policies: WHO European Region
• Anti-malaria drug policies: WHO South-East Asia Region
• Anti-malaria drug policies: WHO Western Pacific Region