Racing Against Time: Protecting the Gains Achieved in Malaria Control Against Drug Resistance

The UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria & NTDs (APPMG) recently released a report summarising a number of measures to tackle artemisinin resistance and support the drive towards eliminating malaria.

These include:

  • Improve access to treatments
  • Develop tools to improve quality and timeliness of data collection
  • Improve surveillance
  • Tackle poor quality, falsified or substandard medicines
  • Enhance coverage and use of insecticide treated bed nets
  • Develop approaches and tools to reduce the risk of mosquito bites 

Download the PDF version of the report.

 

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