WHO guidelines for Malaria
Summary of recommendations (Content)
1 – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2 – INTRODUCTION
3 – ABBREVIATIONS
4 – PREVENTION
4.1 – Vector control
4.1.1 – Interventions recommended for large-scale deployment
4.1.2 – Combining ITNs and IRS
4.1.3 – Supplementary interventions
4.1.4 – Other considerations for vector control
4.1.4.1 – Special situations
4.1.4.2 – Implementation challenges
4.1.4.3 – Monitoring and evaluation of vector control
4.1.5 – Research needs
4.2 – Preventive chemotherapies & Mass drug administration
4.2.1 – Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp)
4.2.2 – Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi)
4.2.3 – Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC)
5 – CASE MANAGEMENT
5.1 – Diagnosing malaria (2015)
5.2 – Treating uncomplicated malaria
5.2.1 – Artemisinin-based combination therapy
5.2.2 – Duration of treatment
5.2.3 – Dosing of ACTS
5.2.4 – Recurrent falciparum malaria
5.2.5 – Reducing the transmissibility of treated P. falciparum infections in areas of low-intensity transmission
5.3 – Treating special risk groups
5.3.1 – Pregnant and lactating women
5.3.2 – Young children and infants
5.3.3 – Patients co-infected with HIV
5.3.4 – Non-immune travellers
5.3.5 – Uncomplicated hyperparasitaemia
5.4 – Treating uncomplicated malaria caused by P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae or P. knowlesi
5.5 – Treating severe malaria
5.5.1 – Artesunate
5.5.2 – Parenteral alternatives when artesunate is not available
5.5.3 – Pre-referral treatment options
5.6 – Chemoprevention in special risk groups
5.7 – Other considerations in treating malaria
5.7.1 – Management of malaria cases in special situations
5.7.2 – Quality of antimalarial drugs
5.7.3 – Monitoring efficacy and safety of antimalarial drugs and resistance
5.8 – National adaptation and implementation
6 – ELIMINATION
7 – SURVEILLANCE
8 – METHODS
9 – GLOSSARY
10 – CONTRIBUTORS AND INTERESTS 129
10.1 – Guidelines for malaria vector control
10.2 – Guidelines for the treatment of malaria
References
Annex: All evidence profiles, sorted by sections