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WHO Guidelines for malaria
Overview
The WHO Guidelines for malaria bring together the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for malaria in one user-friendly and easy-to-navigate online platform.
The WHO Guidelines for malaria supersedes 2 previous WHO publications: the Guidelines for the treatment of malaria, third edition and the Guidelines for malaria vector control. Recommendations on malaria will continue to be reviewed and, where appropriate, updated based on the latest available evidence. Any updated recommendations will always display the date of the most recent revision in the MAGICapp platform. With each update, a new PDF version of the consolidated guidelines will also be available for download on the WHO website.
The second version of the Guidelines includes updates to the vector control guidance in the malaria prevention section and replaces the version published on 16 February 2021.
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WHO Guidelines for malaria, 13 July 2021. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021 (WHO/UCN/GMP/2021.01 Rev.1). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
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