7 June 2017 – In his letter to partners, Dr Pedro Alonso, Director of the Global Malaria Programme, reflects on a number of topics currently on the Programme's agenda.
6 June 2017 – The WHO Global Malaria Programme is currently calling for applications for membership on the Technical Expert Group on Malaria Chemotherapy.
2 June 2017 – Meeting on 1 June members of the WHO Executive Board expressed appreciation for the creation of the Strategic advisory group for malaria eradication.
2 June 2017 – Health ministers from the South-East Asia Region and development partners gathered last week in Geneva to celebrate the achievement of malaria elimination in the Maldives and Sri Lanka.
2 June 2017 – At its Seventieth session, the World Health Assembly unanimously welcomed the Global Vector Control Response 2017–2030 . A commentary was also published in the Lancet to mark the event.
18 May 2017 – WHO has published a Request for Proposals (RFP) to undertake a robust evaluation of the pilot implementation of the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01.
12 May 2017 – At a two-day meeting in Madrid co-hosted by Unitaid, WHO and ISGlobal, international health experts addressed the challenges posed by vector-borne diseases and explored new ways to respond to them.
25 April 2017 – This year, WHO is shining a spotlight on prevention, a critical strategy for reducing the toll of a disease that continues to kill more than 400 000 people annually. A number of events were organized to mark the occasion.
24 April 2017 – At an event on the eve of World Malaria Day in Nairobi, WHO called for accelerated scale-up of efforts to prevent malaria and save lives.
24 April 2017 – The WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO) announced the names of the three countries participating in the WHO-led pilot programme for the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine.
13 April 2017 – The WHO Global Malaria Programme is currently calling for applications from malaria experts for membership on the Technical Expert Group on Malaria Vector Control.
31 March 2017 – Senior representatives from national malaria control programmes around the world recently gathered in Geneva to share knowledge and best practices towards a common goal: “Getting to zero” by the year 2020.
24 March 2017 – WHO has published new policy guidance on malaria elimination. It provides countries with a set of tools and strategies for achieving and maintaining elimination, regardless of where they lie across the spectrum of malaria transmission.
16 March 2017 – The WHO Global Malaria Programme is accepting applications from malaria experts to be considered for membership on the Technical Expert Group on drug efficacy and response.
15 March 2017 – Members of the Malaria Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC) will convene on 22–24 March.The agenda includes, among other topics, updates on the RTS,S malaria vaccine, malaria-eliminating countries and HRP2/HRP3 deletions.
28 February 2017 – Members of the WHO Strategic advisory group (SAG) on malaria eradication recently convened in Geneva to review and define a set of work streams for the next 2-year period.
17 February 2017 – The WHO Global Malaria Programme is accepting applications from malaria experts to be considered for membership on the Malaria Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC).
3 February 2017 – The WHO Executive Board requested that a resolution on a comprehensive approach to global vector control be prepared for consideration by all 192 Member States at the Seventieth World Health Assembly in May 2017.
2 February 2017 – WHO is seeking nominations for scientific, operational and policy experts to support the work of the Vector Control Advisory Group (VCAG) on new vector control tools.
