Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the WHO: Sessions of the January 2012 meeting

Overview

This file contains the slides that were shown by the presenters during the meeting as well the background documentation shared with MPAC members ahead of the meeting:

• Welcome - Introduction by Chair of MPAC
  
• MPAC decision making process and outputs
• ERGs, TEGs and their ways of work
• Global report including key updates and challenges from regions, and the GMP strategy
• Drug resistance - Update on the situation, including the need for a TEG
• RDT procurement criteria - Update on current criteria, and why the threshold needs review
• Larviciding - Update on the situation and a proposed position statement
• Classification of countries for elimination - Update on current and proposed classification criteria
• Estimating malaria cases and deaths - Update on current estimates
• Seasonal malaria chemoprevention