Management of health programmes: Malaria
For frontline managers
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RBM Toolbox
Roll Back Malaria
Provides brief information on and links to RMB country needs assessment tools and other partnership tools
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WHO Briefing on Malaria Treatment Guidelines and Artemisinin Monotherapies
2006, WHO
WHO recommends the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) in order to ensure high cure rates of Plasmodium falciparum malaria and to reduce the spread of drug resistance.
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Practical Pharmacy Newsletter Issue 16
pdf, 941kb
"2006, Health Action International (Africa)
In this issue: Malaria, Malaria and HIV/AIDS; new WHO guidelines on treatment of malaria; using malaria medicines properly; reference chart for anitmalarials; an example of national malaria treatment guidelines; prevention of malaria
(9 pages, pdf 920kb) -
Health economics for health workers involved in malaria control programmes: Basic concepts, tools and application
2003, WHO/HTM/RBM/2003 Part I
Overview of health economics; funding for malaria work; costing for programme planning and management; economic evaluation approaches; the economics of malaria; will economic arguments always work? Making the case for malaria
(54 pages, pdf 400kb) -
Long-lasting insecticidal nets for malaria prevention A manual for malaria programme managers
pdf, 1.36Mb
2007, WHO
A practical guide on malaria prevention through the use of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), particularly long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and is intended for national malaria control programmes that have opted to use LLINs to protect some or all populations at risk.
(100 pages)