The Working Group took decisive steps to strengthen collaboration, improve communication, and enhance malaria vector control strategies. Members recommended increasing cross-representation between working groups, including WIN’s presence in the Malaria in Pregnancy WG, and improving information exchange through regular updates and meetings among WG Chairs. WIN committed to refining its communication strategies to ensure broader adoption of its high-quality outputs by decision-makers and media. The group finalized the second edition of the Strategic Framework, ensuring a balanced approach between public and commercial distribution models. WIN also pledged to synthesize evidence on IRS cost-effectiveness, document net coverage trends in relation to tax policies, and establish a satellite group for ITN quality assurance.

RBM partners were urged to collect and share lessons on ITN scale-up, while WHO was encouraged to issue technical and safety statements on LLINs and use upcoming global forums to push for tariff reductions. Additionally, WIN planned to work with MMSS to improve procurement forecasting tools and address challenges in ITN tendering processes.

Additional Materials

Report from Informal Meeting in Yaounde, Cameron. November 17, 2005

On the occasion of the 4th MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference in Yaoundé, 13-18 November, 2005, the RBM WIN Working Group took advantage of the presence of so many of its members, to have a half-day ad hoc meeting to take stock of progress on its current work plan, discuss emerging issues, and prepare messages to be carried forward to the 5th Roll Back Malaria Partners Forum, also being held in Yaoundé. This is a note for the record of those discussions.