About WHO Global Malaria Programme (GMP)
GMP, as part of the World Health Organization, convenes experts to review evidence and set global policies. GMP's policy advice provides the benchmark for national malaria programmes and multilateral funding agencies.
GMP’s unique position uniting high levels of expertise – and WHO's field presence in all regions and all malaria-endemic countries of the world – ensures harmonized policy advice and the critical technical assistance necessary to effect concrete and sustainable successes at global level.
GMP’s activities are focused on providing an integrated solution to the various epidemiological and operational challenges. This is done by promoting sound, evidence-based and locally appropriate strategies. The Programme helps countries reach the most vulnerable populations and ensure that needed interventions take into account social, economic and environmental realities.
GMP teams provide technical assistance at country level
The WHO Global Malaria Programme supports national malaria programmes worldwide. GMP teams provide technical assistance at country level on five main topics:
- diagnosis and treatment (diagnostic tools, medicines, patient management, quality assurance, supply chain management)
- vector control and preventive measures (mosquito control; reducing the risk of infection for local populations and international travellers)
- elimination of malaria (expanding the malaria-free areas of the world)
- surveillance, monitoring and evaluation (generating data for decision making, quality assurance)
- research (improving the tools to combat malaria, and the way we use them)
Key GMP activities and products
- Promote global policies and direction.
- Monitor and manage drug and insecticide resistances.
- Ensure robust supply chain management for diagnostics and medicines.
- Provide technical assistance to countries in all regions for scaling up appropriate responses to malaria, including interventions aimed at eliminating malaria where possible.
- Design guidelines and training packages on implementation of interventions that work.
- Support management, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of interventions, especially seasonal IRS and large-scale distribution of LLINs.
- Support systematic capacity building, especially for malaria field officers, environmental health officers, entomologists, as well as strengthen relevant health services.
- Support research for the development of new medicines and insecticides, the improvement of existing tools, especially treatment technologies and application methods, to overcome medicines and insecticide resistance.
Contact information
For general information on malaria, please contact:
Global Malaria Programme Department
World Health Organization
20 avenue Appia
1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Fax: +41 (22) 791 4824
E-mail: infoGMP@who.int
