Guidelines on situation analysis for public health pesticide management

Overview

A meeting of the Global Collaboration for Development of Pesticides for Public Health (GCDPP) on the development of guidelines for testing and evaluation of long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets (LNs) was convened at WHO headquarters, Geneva, 4–7 April 2005.

The objective of the meeting was to develop specific and standardized criteria, procedures and guidelines for testing LNs for personal protection and malaria control. The guidelines are intended to harmonize the testing procedures carried out by national authorities to generate data for the registration and labelling of LNs.

The meeting was attended by nine representatives of industry, six participants from academic or government institutions and four WHO staff members (see list of participants, Annex 1). Professor Marc Coosemans was appointed Chair of the meeting and Dr John Gimnig was appointed Rapporteur. Industry representatives attended the first two days of the meeting to discuss general issues and present their views regarding the evaluation of LNs. The remaining participants then finalized the guidelines over the next two days.