Minutes of the Evidence Review Group meeting on the emergence and spread of multidrug‐resistant Plasmodium falciparum lineages in the Greater Mekong subregion, 19–20 December 2016

Overview

At the request of the Malaria Policy Advisory Committee, an Evidence Review Group conducted a review of the evidence on the spread of multidrug‐resistant P. falciparum in the Greater Mekong subregion. The regional and global risks this development poses to the efficacy of artemisinin‐based combination therapies were assessed in the context of contemporary and historical patterns of emergence and spread of drug‐resistant malaria.