Report of the eighteenth WHOPES working group meeting: WHO/HQ, Geneva, 29 June−1 July 2015
Review of MiraNet LN, Panda Net 2.0 LN, Yahe LN, SafeNet LN
Overview
The 18th meeting of the WHOPES Working Group, an advisory group to the World Health Organization Pesticide Evaluation Scheme (WHOPES), was held at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland from 29 June to 1 July 2015.
The Working Group reviewed four long-lasting insecticidal net products for the prevention and control of malaria: (i) MiraNet LN of A to Z Textile Mills Ltd; (ii) Panda Net 2.0 LN of Life Ideas Textiles Company Ltd2; (iii) Yahe LN of Fujian Yamei Industry; and (iv) SafeNet LN of Mainpol GmbH. The Working Group made recommendations on the use of each of these products.
The meeting was attended by 11 invited experts, one observer and five WHO Secretariat staff (see Annex 1. List of participants). The Working Group met in both plenary and break- out sessions, in which the reports of the WHOPES-supervised studies, the reports submitted by the manufacturers, and the relevant published literature and unpublished reports were reviewed and discussed (see Annex 2. References).