Who Malaria Policy Advisory Group Mpag Meeting Report 4 5 And 7 March 2024

Download or read book WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Group (MPAG) meeting report, 4, 5 and 7 March 2024 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 4, 5 and 7 March 2024, the WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Group (MPAG) convened in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to review updates and progress, and to provide guidance on thematic areas of work by the Global Malaria Programme. The meeting focused on the following topics: malaria vaccine introduction and scale-up, and the Gavi-supported malaria learning agenda; the High burden to high impact (HBHI) approach; subnational tailoring; biological threats to vector control in Africa; the strategy to respond to antimalarial drug resistance in Africa; the development of guidelines recommendations on tafenoquine, primaquine and near-patient glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) diagnostic tests to support radical cure of Plasmodium vivax; and malaria elimination, including zoonotic malaria.