Defining and validating a measure of parasite resistance to sulfadoxinepyrimethamine (SP) that would be indicative of the protective efficacy of SP for intermittent preventive treatment in infancy (SP-IPTi)
Report of the technical consultation, Geneva, September 10-11, 2009
Overview
The protective efficacy of SP-IPTi is dependent upon the antimalarial efficacy of SP, to which there has been increasing parasite resistance in most parts of Africa. This is the report of a technical expert consultation convened by the Global Malaria Programme in September 2009 to identify the most appropriate marker(s) of SP resistance and their threshold levels that would be indicative of the protective efficacy of SP in IPTi, to guide the deployment of SP-IPTi in a given area.