Global Call to Action to scale-up coverage of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: seminar report

Koki Agarwal; Pedro Alonso; R Matthew Chico; Jane Coleman; Stephanie Dellicour; Jenny Hill; Maud Majeres-Lugand; Viviana Mangiaterra; Clara Menendez; Kate Mitchell; Elaine Roman; Elisa Sicuri; Harry Tagbor; Anna Maria van Eijk; Jayne Webster

doi:10.1186/s12936-015-0730-3

Global Call to Action to scale-up coverage of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: seminar report

Malar J. 2015 May 18:14:206. doi: 10.1186/s12936-015-0730-3.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, Jhpiego, Baltimore, USA. Koki.Agarwal@jhpiego.org.
² Global Malaria Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. alonsop@who.int.
³ Department of Disease Control, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London, UK. Matthew.Chico@lshtm.ac.uk.
⁴ Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, Jhpiego, Baltimore, USA. Jane.Coleman@jhpiego.org.
⁵ Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, UK. Stephanie.Dellicour@lstmed.ac.uk.
⁶ Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, UK. Jenny.Hill@lstmed.ac.uk.
⁷ Access & Product Management, Medicine for Malaria Venture, Geneva, Switzerland. majeresm@mmv.org.
⁸ RMNCH and HSS Technical Advice & Partnerships Department, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Vernier-Geneva, Switzerland. Viviana.Mangiaterra@theglobalfund.org.
⁹ ISGlobal, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. menendez@clinic.ub.es.
¹⁰ Maternal Health Task Force, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA. kmitchel@hsph.harvard.edu.
¹¹ Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, Jhpiego, Baltimore, USA. Elaine.Roman@jhpiego.org.
¹² ISGlobal, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. elisa.sicuri@cresib.cat.
¹³ Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Department of Community Health, School of Medical Sciences, Kumasi, Ghana. ktagbor@yahoo.com.
¹⁴ Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, UK. Anna.vanEijk@lstmed.ac.uk.
¹⁵ Department of Disease Control, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London, UK. Jayne.Webster@lshtm.ac.uk.

Abstract

In 2014, a global 'Call to Action' seminar for the scale-up of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy was held during the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. This report summarizes the presentations and main discussion points from the meeting.

Publication types

Congress
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Africa South of the Sahara
Antimalarials / therapeutic use*
Female
Humans
Louisiana
Malaria / prevention & control*
Pregnancy
Tropical Medicine*

Substances

Antimalarials

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International