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List of malaria publications by year

in alphabetical order

2013

• Emergency response to artemisinin resistance in the Greater Mekong subregion
  Regional Framework for Action 2013-2015
• Indoor residual spraying: An operational manual for IRS for malaria transmission, control and elimination
  April 2013
• Management of severe malaria – A practical handbook. Third edition
  April 2013
• Test procedures for insecticide resistance monitoring in malaria vector mosquitoes
  April 2013
• WHO policy brief for the implementation of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP)
  April 2013

2012

• Community-based reduction of malaria transmission
  Informal consultation organized by the WHO Global Malaria Programme in collaboration with Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA) initiative, 3-4 February 2010
• Defeating malaria in Asia, the Pacific, Americas, Middle East and Europe
  Progress & impact series, n. 9 (November 2012)
• Disease surveillance for malaria control
  Operational manual (2012)
• Disease surveillance for malaria elimination
  Operational manual (2012)
• Effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical forms of Artemisia annua L. against malaria
  WHO position statement (June 2012)
• Eliminating malaria: case study 1. Achieving elimination in Turkmenistan
  October 2012
• Eliminating malaria: case study 2. Moving towards sustainable elimination in Cape Verde
  October 2012
• Eliminating Malaria: case study 3. Progress towards elimination in Sri Lanka
  October 2012
• Eliminating malaria: case study 4. Preventing reintroduction in Mauritius
  October 2012
• Global plan for insecticide resistance management in malaria vectors (GPIRM)
• Guidelines for procuring public health pesticides
  March 2012
• Inaugural meeting of the malaria policy advisory committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations
  WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee and Secretariat, Malaria Journal 2012, 11:137
• Information note on recommended selection criteria for procurement of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs)
  20 December 2012
• Launch of the Global plan for insecticide resistance management
  Report on the event held in Geneva on 15 May 2012
• Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations of September 2012 meeting
  WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee and Secretariat, Malaria Journal 2012, 11:424
• Malaria rapid diagnostic test performance
  Results of WHO product testing of malaria RDTs: Round 4 (2012)
• Report of the Technical consultation on seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC)
  Geneva, 4-6 May 2011
• Single dose Primaquine as a gametocytocide in Plasmodium falciparum malaria
  Updated WHO Policy Recommendation (October 2012)
• T3: Test. Treat. Track.
  Scaling up diagnostic testing, treatment and surveillance for malaria
• Update on artemisinin resistance ‐ April 2012
• Updated WHO policy recommendation: intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP)
  October 2012
• WHO historical documents on malaria (1947-2000)
  Comprehensive overview of all WHO/MAL documents published between 1947 and 2000 with year of publication, titles, authors and hyperlinks to the full texts
• WHO interim position statement – the role of larviciding for malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa
  April 2012
• WHO policy recommendation: seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) for Plasmodium falciparum malaria control in highly seasonal transmission areas of the Sahel sub-region in Africa
  March 2012
• World Malaria Report 2012

2011

• A system to improve Value for Money in LLIN procurement through market competition based on cost per year of effective coverage
  Concept Note (October 2011)
• Consideration of mass drug administration for the containment of artemisinin-resistant malaria in the Greater Mekong subregion
  Report of a consensus meeting, 27-28 September 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
• Draft interim recommendations on the sound management of packaging for long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs)
  Geneva, Switzerland, 1 November 2011
• Eliminating malaria: learning from the past, looking ahead
  Progress & impact series, n. 8 (October 2011)
• Global Fund proposal development: WHO policy brief on malaria
  WHO/GMP July 2011
• Global plan for artemisinin resistance containment (GPARC)
  January 2011
• Good practices for selecting and procuring rapid diagnostic tests for malaria
  May 2011
• Intermittent preventive treatment for infants using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP-IPTi) for malaria control in Africa: implementation field guide
  September 2011
• Malaria rapid diagnostic test performance
  Results of WHO product testing of malaria RDTs: Round 3 (2010-2011)
• Methods and techniques for assessing exposure to antimalarial drugs in clinical field studies
  Informal consultation organized by the World Health Organization with the technical support of the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (February 2010)
• The technical basis for coordinated action against insecticide resistance: preserving the effectiveness of modern malaria vector control
  Meeting report, Geneva, 4-6 May 2010
• The use of DDT in malaria vector control
  WHO position statement, May 2011
• Universal access to malaria diagnostic testing / Accès universel aux tests diagnostiques du paludisme
  An operational manual 2011 / Manuel pratique
• Update on artemisinin resistance ‐ September 2011
• World Malaria Report 2011

2010

• Basic malaria microscopy: Part I. Learner's guide. Second edition
  February 2010
• Basic malaria microscopy: Part II. Tutor's guide. Second edition
  February 2010
• 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
• Global report on antimalarial efficacy and drug resistance: 2000-2010
  November 2010
• Good procurement practices for artemisinin-based antimalarial medicines
• Guidelines for the treatment of malaria. Second edition
  March 2010
• Malaria programme reviews: a manual for reviewing the performance of malaria control and elimination programmes
  Trial edition, March 2010
• The technical basis for coordinated action against insecticide resistance: preserving the effectiveness of modern malaria vector control Global Malaria Programme
  Meeting report, Geneva 4-6 May 2010
• WHO Policy recommendation on Intermittent Preventive Treatment during infancy with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP-IPTi) for Plasmodium falciparum malaria control in Africa
  March 2010
• World Malaria Report 2010

2009

• Deployment of artemether-lumefantrine with rapid diagnostic tests at community level, Raya Valley, Tigray, Ethiopia
• Malaria case management: operations manual
  November 2009
• Malaria microscopy quality assurance manual - version 1
  October 2009
• Malaria rapid diagnostic test performance
  Results of WHO product testing of malaria RDTs: Round 2 (2009)
• Methods for field trials of malaria rapid diagnostic tests
• Methods for surveillance of antimalarial drug efficacy
  November 2009
• Pharmacovigilance guidance for countries participating in AMFm Phase 1 (archived)
  WHO-MMV joint technical consultation, 4-6 April 2009
• Report of the technical consultation on intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi)
  Technical Expert Group on Preventive Chemotherapy, Geneva, April 2009
• Transporting, storing and handling malaria rapid diagnostic tests at central and peripheral storage facilities
• Transporting, storing and handling malaria rapid diagnostic tests in health clinics
• World Malaria Report 2009

2008

• A practical handbook on the pharmacovigilance of antimalarial medicines
• Global malaria control and elimination
  Report of a meeting on containment of artemisinin tolerance, 19 January 2008
• Global malaria control and elimination: report of a technical review
  17–18 January 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
• Methods and techniques for clinical trials on antimalarial drug efficacy: Genotyping to identify parasite populations
  Informal consultation organized by the Medicines for Malaria Venture and cosponsored by the World Health Organization, 29-31 May 2007
• Parasitological confirmation of malaria diagnosis
  Report of a WHO technical consultation, October 2009
• WHO position statement on integrated vector management
  May 2008
• World Malaria Report 2008

2007

• Assessment of the safety of artemisinin compounds in pregnancy
  Report of two joint informal consultations convened in 2006
• Containment of malaria multi-drug resistance on the Cambodia-Thailand border
  Report of an informal consultation, Phnom Penh, 29-30 January 2007
• Field application of in vitro assays sensitivity of human malaria parasites antimalarial drugs
  April 2007
• Insecticide-treated mosquito nets: a WHO position statement (archived)
  August 2007
• Long-lasting insecticidal nets for malaria prevention (archived)
  Trial Edition: A manual for malaria programme managers
• Malaria elimination. A field manual for low and moderate endemic countries
  April 2007
• Malaria in pregnancy (archived)
  Guidelines for measuring key monitoring and evaluation indicators
• Recommended genotyping procedures (RGPs) to identify parasite populations
  Developed after an informal consultation organized by the Medicines for Malaria Venture and cosponsored by the World Health Organization, 29‐31 May 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Report of the Technical Expert Group (TEG) on intermittent preventive therapy in infancy (IPTi)
  Geneva, 8–10 October 2007
• Specifications for netting materials
  Technical consultation on specifications and quality control of netting materials and mosquito nets, 29 November – 2 December 2005
• Technical Expert Group meeting on intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp)
  Geneva 11-13 June 2007
• WHO informal consultation with manufacturers of artemisinin-based pharmaceutical products in use for the treatment of malaria
  Geneva, 24 August 2007

2006

• A framework of strategic options for the integrated delivery of insecticide-treated nets and immunization
• Artemisinin-based suppositories
  Use of rectal artemisinin-based suppositories in the management of severe malaria Report of a WHO Informal Consultation (March 2006)
• Indoor residual spraying. Use of indoor residual spraying for scaling up global malaria control and elimination (archived)
  August 2006
• Informal consultation on malaria elimination
  Setting up the WHO agenda
• Informal consultation on quality control of malaria microscopy
  WHO Headquaters, Geneva, 3 March 2006
• Iron supplementation of young children in regions where malaria transmission is intense and infectious disease highly prevalent
  WHO Statement, January 2006
• Malaria vector control and personal protection
  Report of a WHO study group (12–14 March 2004)
• Meeting on the production of artemisinin and ACTs
  6-7 June 2005, Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania
• Protecting all pregnant women and children under five years living in malaria endemic areas in Africa with insecticide treated mosquito nets
  Working Paper (2006)
• Systems for the early detection of malaria epidemics in Africa
  An analysis of current practices and future priorities
• The role of laboratory diagnosis to support malaria disease management. Focus on the use of rapid diagnostic tests in areas of high transmission
  Report of a WHO Technical Consultation, 25–26 October 2004. Pre-publication copy
• Towards quality testing of malaria rapid diagnostic tests: evidence and methods
  Developed from the proceedings of two consultations held in March and June 2006
• WHO briefing on malaria treatment guidelines and artemisinin monotherapies
• WHO monograph on good agricultural and collection practices (GACP) for Artemisia annua L. (archived)

2005

• A strategic framework for coordinated national action scaling up insecticide-treated netting programmes in Africa
  Working group for scaling-up insecticide-treated netting
• Availability and supply of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets
  RBM Partnership, Geneva, June 2005
• Communicable diseases and severe food shortage
  WHO Technical Note, October 2010
• Decisions of the first conference of parties to the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants on DDT
  Punta del Este, Uruguay, 2–6 May 2005
• Guidelines for laboratory and field testing of long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets
• Guidelines on situation analysis for public health pesticide management
• Malaria
  Roll Back Malaria Department WHO
• Malaria and HIV/AIDS interactions and their implications for public health policy
  Report of a technical consultation, 23-25 June 2004
• Malaria and malnutrition
  WHO/RBM Consultation - Best practices and lessons learnt from implementing malaria control in complex emergencies in Africa 2000–04
• Malaria control in complex emergencies (archived)
  An inter-agency field handbook
• Malaria control today
  Current WHO Recommendations
• Malaria incidence estimates at country level for the year 2004 (archived)
  Draft report, March 2005
• Malaria indicator survey: basic documentation for survey design and implementation (archived)
  Roll Back Malaria - Monitoring and evaluation reference group
• Malaria risk and malaria control in Asian countries affected by the tsunami disaster
  Technical note
• Protecting vulnerable groups in malaria-endemic areas in Africa through accelerated deployment of insecticide-treated nets (archived)
  WHO UNICEF Joint Statement, April 2005
• Recommendations on the use of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine (SP) for Intermittent Preventive Treatment during Pregnancy (IPT) in areas of moderate to high resistance to SP in the African Region (archived)
  October 2005
• Review of the safety of chlorproguanil–dapsone the treatment uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Africa
  Report of a Technical Consultation convened by WHO, Geneva, 1–2 July 2004
• Specifications for prepackaging antimalarial medicines
  Report of a WHO technical consultation, 2-4 September 2003
• Strategic orientation paper on prevention and control of malaria. First edition (archived)
  For national and international programme officers involved in malaria control at country level (August 2005)
• Survey report on training courses on malaria and other vector-borne diseases and planning their control (archived)
• Susceptibility of plasmodium falciparum to antimalarial drugs
  Report on global monitoring 1996-2004
• Targeted subsidy strategies for national scaling up of insecticide-treated netting programmes
  Principles and approaches
• The Roll Back Malaria strategy for improving access to treatment through home management of malaria (archived)
• World Malaria Report 2005

2004

• 10 things you need to know about DDT use under the Stockholm Convention
• A generic risk assessment model for insecticide treatment of mosquito nets and their subsequent use
• A strategic framework for malaria prevention and control during pregnancy in the African region
  January 2004
• Communicable diseases in complex emergencies: impact and challenges
• Decision-making for judicious use of insecticides
  Trial edition
• Field guide for malaria epidemic assessment and reporting
  Draft for Field Testing
• Frequently asked questions (FAQs) on DDT use for disease vector control
• Global strategic framework for integrated vector management
• Insecticide-treated bed nets and curtains for preventing malaria (archived)
  2004 Update
• Malaria and HIV/AIDS interactions and implications
  Conclusions of a technical consultation convened by WHO, 23-25 June 2004
• Malaria control and immunization: a sound partnership with great potential
• Malaria epidemic preparedness, Darfur crisis, 2004 - Vector control
  WHO/EMRO
• Malaria epidemic response: what the clinician needs to know (archived)
• Malaria epidemics: forecasting, prevention, early detection and control: From policy to practice
  Report of an Informal Consultation, Leysin, Switzerland, 8-10 December 2003
• Monitoring and evaluation toolkit (archived)
  HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
• Reducing the burden of anemia in infants and young children in malaria-endemic countries of Africa: from evidence to action (archived)
  Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 71(Suppl 2), 2004, pp. 25–34
• Reducing the burden of malaria in pregnancy
  January 2004
• Review of Vecto Bac WG, PermaNet and Gokilath-S 5EC
  Report of the 7th WHOPES Working Group meeting, 2-4 December 2003
• Scaling up home-based management of malaria (archived)
  From research to implementation
• The use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (archived)
  April 2004
• WHO position on DDT use in disease vector control under The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

2003

• Access to antimalarial medicine: improving the affordability and financing of artemisinin-based combination therapies
• Africa Malaria Report 2003
• Assessment and monitoring of antimalarial drug efficacy for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria
• Assessment of the safety of artemisinin compounds in pregnancy
  Report of two informal consultations convened by WHO in 2002
• Climate change and human health - Risks and responses (archived)
• Combination therapies and formulation of antimalarial drug policy (archived)
  Learner's Guide, Tutor's Guide
• Fourth update on Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets
  Current Status And Programmatic Issues Geneva, 10.11.2003
• Guidelines on the management of public health pesticides
  Report of the WHO Interregional Consultation, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 25-28 February 2003
• Health economics for health workers involved in malaria control programmes. Basic concepts, tools and application (archived)
  Learner’s Guide, Tutor's Guide
• Improving access to antimalarial medicines
  Report of the RBM Partnership Meeting, 30 September–2 October 2002
• Information on factory pre-treated nets and conventional treatment of coloured mosquito nets
  Geneva, 20.09.2003
• Malaria rapid diagnosis - Making it work (archived)
  Meeting report, 20-23 January 2003
• Operational research for malaria control (archived)
  Learner's guide, tutor's guide
• Position of WHO's Roll Back Malaria Department on malaria treatment policy
  November 2003
• Prevention and control of malaria epidemics (archived)
  Learner’s guide, tutor's guide
• Protocols and methods for malaria situation analysis. Trial Edition (archived)
  July 2003
• The Abuja Declaration and the plan of action
  An extract from the African Summit on Roll Back Malaria, Abuja, 25 April 2000

2002

• Clinical, behavioural and socioeconomic factors related to severe malaria
  A Multicenter Study in the Africa Region, WHO AFRO
• Communication for behavioural impact to Roll Back Malaria (archived)
  Module Guide
• Community involvement in Rolling Back Malaria (archived)
• Insecticide-treated mosquito net interventions (archived)
  A manual for national control programme managers
• Instructions for treatment and use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets
  Use insecticide-treated mosquito nets to sleep in peace - and protect your health
• Malaria entomology and vector control (archived)
  Learner's guide, tutor's guide
• Malaria vector control: decision making criteria and procedures for judicious use of insecticides (archived)
  2002
• Manual for indoor residual spraying (archived)
  Application of residual sprays for vector control
• Prevention and control of malaria epidemics
  3rd Meeting of the Technical Support Network
• Scaling-up insecticide-treated netting programmes in Africa (archived)
  A strategic framework for coordinated national action (March 2002)
• Update on Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (archived)
  August 2002

2001

• Antimalarial drug combination therapy
  Report of a WHO Technical Consultation, 4-5 April 2001, World Health Organization, Geneva
• Country strategies and resource requirements
  Draft for consultation
• Factors that affect the success and failure of ITN programmes for malaria control in SE Asia and the Western Pacific (archived)
  Prepared by Tony Stewart and Ron P. Marchand for WHO-WPRO
• In vitro micro-test (mark III) for the assessment of the response of plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine, mefloquine, quinine, amodiaquine, sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine and artemisinin (archived)
  Instructions for use of the in vitro micro-test kit (Mark III)
• Insecticide-treated netting materials (archived)
  Report of the third meeting of the technical support network, February 2001
• Malaria early warning systems
  A framework for field research in Africa. Concepts, indicators and partners (2001)
• Malaria vector control. Insecticides for indoor residual spraying (archived)
  2001
• Review of Olyset Nets and bifenthrin 10%WP (archived)
  Report of the 5th WHOPES Working Group meeting, 30-31 October 2001
• Specifications for netting materials (archived)
  Report of an informal consultation, WHO, Geneva, 8-9 June 2000
• Supplies for monitoring insecticide resistance in disease vectors
  Procedures and Conditions
• The use of antimalarial drugs (archived)
  Report of an informal consultation, 13-17 November 2000

2000

• Bench aids for the diagnosis of malaria infections. Second edition
  January 2000
• Framework for monitoring progress and evaluating outcomes and impact
• Indicators to measure the impact of malaria control
• Introduction to basic epidemiology and principles of statistics for tropical diseases control (archived)
  Learner's guide, tutor's guide
• New perspectives: malaria diagnosis
  Report of a joint WHO/USAID informal consultation, 25-27 October 1999
• Planning malaria control programmes (archived)
  Learner's Guide
• Project for the accelerated implementation of malaria control in Africa (1997-1998) (archived)
  March 2000
• RBM action at country level Country (archived)
  Country updates October 1998-June 2000
• RBM advocacy guide (archived)
  March 2000
• RBM strategic plan for capacity development (archived)
  Introduction to the strategic plan for capacity development for RBM
• Repellents and toxicants for personal protection (archived)
  Position paper. Global collaboration for development of pesticides for public health (2000)
• The epidemiological approach to malaria control (archived)
  Part I: Learner's Guide, Part II: Tutor's Guide

Pre-2000

• A global strategy for malaria control (archived)
  1993
• Basic laboratory methods in medical parasitology
• Basic laboratory methods in medical parasitology (archived)
• Basic malaria microscopy (archived)
  Part I: Learner's Guide, Part II: Tutor's Guide
• Entomological field techniques for malaria control (archived)
  Part I: learner's guide, part II: tutor's guide
• Environmental management for vector control
  Training and information materials; Slide set series
• Guideline specifications for bacterial larvicides for public health use (archived)
  Report of the WHO informal consultation, WHO/HQ, Geneva, 28-30 April 1999.
• Malaria control among refugees and displaced populations (archived)
• Malaria control. Achievements, problems and strategies (archived)
  March 1999
• Malaria epidemics (archived)
  Detection and control, forecasting and prevention
• Malaria, 1982-1997 (archived)
  Weekly epidemiological record
• Malaria: a manual for community health workers (archived)
• Malaria: an educational comic book (archived)
  January 1999
• PEEM guidelines 3
  Guidelines for cost-effectiveness analysis of vector control
• Safe and effective use of household insecticide products (archived)
  Guide for the production of educational and training materials
• Safety of pyrethroid-treated mosquito nets
  Fact Sheet
• Techniques to detect insecticide resistance mechanisms (field and laboratory manual) (archived)
  1998
• Test procedures for insecticide resistance monitoring in malaria vectors, bio-efficacy and persistence of insecticides on treated surfaces (archived)
  Report of the WHO Informal Consultation, 28-30 September 1998
• The community-based malaria control programme in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
  A review of programme set-up, activities, outcomes and impact
• The use of artemisinin and its derivatives as anti-malarial drugs (archived)
  Report of a joint CTD/DMP/TDR informal consultation, Geneva, June 1998
• Vector control for malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases : report of a WHO study group (archived)
  WHO technical report series, 857 (1995)
• Vector control: methods for use by individuals and communities (archived)
• Vector resistance to pesticides (archived)
  15th report of the WHO Expert Committee on Vector Biology and Control. WHO technical report series, 818
• World malaria situation in 1994 (archived)
  Weekly epidemiological record