Report of the thirteenth WHOPES working group meeting: WHO/HQ, Geneva, 28–30 July 2009

Overview

The thirteenth meeting of the WHOPES Working Group, an advisory group to the WHO Pesticide Evaluation Scheme (WHOPES), was convened at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from 28 to 30 July 2009. The objective of the meeting was to review the reports of testing and evaluation of three long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets (LNs) for prevention and control of malaria: Olyset® (Sumitomo Chemical, Japan); DawaPlus®2.0 (Tana Netting, Thailand); and Tianjin Yorkool LN (China).

The meeting also reviewed WHOPES recommendations on PermaNet® 3.0 (Vestergaard-Frandsen, Switzerland), in the light of the revised product claims, and made appropriate recommendations (see Annex I).

The meeting was attended by 13 scientists (see Annex II: List of participants). Professor Dr Marc Coosemans was appointed as Chairman and Dr Mark Rowland as Rapporteur. The meeting was convened in plenary and group sessions, in which the reports of the WHOPES supervised trials and relevant published literature and unpublished reports were reviewed and discussed (see Annex III: References). Recommendations on the use of the above-mentioned products were made.