The 21st Annual MiP WG Meeting is a virtual meeting due to COVID travel restrictions.  This has allowed for greater participation from the WG community, including country representatives from both malaria control and reproductive health programs, donors, researchers and implementing partners.  This two-day meeting prioritizes the key MiP themes relevant to advancing MiP interventions: data quality/MiP indicators, gender and equity and the application of the 2016 WHO ANC recommendations for optimal pregnancy.  The meeting also includes the sharing of current MiP related research findings, including midline study results on the TIPTOP C-IPTp pilot.  This is also an opportunity to review WG achievements and priorities, including the global Call to Action to increase IPTp uptake and efforts to increase country engagement. 

Purpose and Objectives: To support countries in their efforts to improve access to and coverage of key interventions, the 21^st RBM MiP Working Group meeting will focus on the following objectives:

1. Share, disseminate and discuss approaches that are or have the potential to contribute to improving MiP coverage
2. Share, disseminate and discuss new MiP research and implications for MiP programming
3. Determine WG priorities and map out activities and roles for 2022

Agenda (Downloadable)

Day 1 - Presentations

• Community IPTp - Elaine Roman, Jhpiego & Franco Pagnoni, ISGlobal

• Breakout Session A

  • Acceptability of Single Screening and Treatment policy for the control of malaria in pregnancy: Perceptions of providers and pregnant women from selected health facilities in Lindi region, Tanzania - Chonge Kitojo

  • Modelling the incremental benefits of incorporating malaria screening strategies within antenatal care - Patrick Walker

  • Understanding refusal: perceptions of SP affecting IPTp delivery. A cross-country qualitative analysis - Yara Alonso & Cristina Enguita

• Breakout Session B

  • Feasibility study of IPTp with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in HIV negative pregnant women - Hellen Barsosio

  • Cardiac safety of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine amongst pregnant women in Tanzania - Matthew Chico

  • Burden of malaria in pregnancy among adolescent girls from five sub-Saharan African countries: a meta-analysis of individual-participant data - Raquel Gonzalez

• MiP Call to Action to Increase IPTp - Silvia Ferazzi, MMV

• RBM Partnership Working Groups

  • VCWG - Justin McBeath

  • SBCWG - Gabrielle Hunter

  • CMWG - Elizabeth Juma

  • SMERG - Debra Prosnitz

Day 2 - Presentations

• Country Experiences: Improving quality of care for MiP through OTSS in 10 districts in Sierra Leone - Wani Lahai, NMCP Sierra Leone

• Hot Topics in MiP 

  • WHO ANC 8 Contact Model - Maurice Bucagu, WHO

  • Gender Analysis (EN) - Elizabeth Arlotti Parish, Jhpiego 

    • Gender Analysis (FR)

  • MiP Data: Issues & solutions - Beatriz Galatas, WHO

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• Country Engagement - Ashley Garley & Ashley Malpass, PMI

• Workplan Updates