Nineteenth meeting of the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group
Nineteenth meeting of the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2024-01-23

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9240087699

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Experts from the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group (VCAG) met with product developers, innovators and researchers from 27–28 September 2023 for the 19th VCAG meeting. This report details the proceedings and outcomes of the meeting, including advice provided to applicants working on interventions in the following intervention types: eave tubes, sterilization of male mosquitoes and systemic endectocide treatment for Lyme disease.

Thirteenth meeting of the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group
Thirteenth meeting of the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group

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Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2021-03-08

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9240021795

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VCAG experts met virtually with product developers, innovators and researchers from 7 to 10 December 2020 for the 13th VCAG meeting. This report details the proceedings and outcomes of the meeting, including advice provided to the following applicants: bait stations; lethal house lures; reduced pathogen transmission induced by Wolbachia; spatial repellents; and treatment of humans and/or livestock with an endectocide.

Sixteenth meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases
Sixteenth meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2023-01-17

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 9240065822

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The sixteenth (hybrid) meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases (STAG-NTD) was held on 27–28 September 2022. Presentations were given on (i) progress since the last meeting from the Director, WHO regions and partners, (ii) the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on NTD programmes and (iii) global support to NTD programmes. A number of recommendations were made in relation to lessons learnt from COVID-19, on advocacy and financing, for specific NTDs and on diagnostics. Four departing members were appreciated for their contribution to the STAG-NTD. The next (seventeenth) meeting of the STAG-NTD will be held in 2023.

Seventeenth meeting of the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group
Seventeenth meeting of the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2023-01-20

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9240066020

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Experts from the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group (VCAG) met in a hybrid meeting with product developers, innovators and researchers from 3 to 6 October 2022 for the 17th VCAG meeting. This report details the proceedings and outcomes of the meeting, including advice provided to applicants working on interventions in the following intervention types: sterile males, population suppression induced by gene drive, insecticide treated nets, endectocides and spatial repellents.

Twentieth meeting of the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group
Twentieth meeting of the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2024-06-28

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9240096671

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On 4, 5 and 7 March 2024, the WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Group (MPAG) convened in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to review updates and progress, and to provide guidance on thematic areas of work by the Global Malaria Programme. The meeting focused on the following topics: malaria vaccine introduction and scale-up, and the Gavi-supported malaria learning agenda; the High burden to high impact (HBHI) approach; subnational tailoring; biological threats to vector control in Africa; the strategy to respond to antimalarial drug resistance in Africa; the development of guidelines recommendations on tafenoquine, primaquine and near-patient glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) diagnostic tests to support radical cure of Plasmodium vivax; and malaria elimination, including zoonotic malaria.