Trods banebrydende resultater inden for malaria-forskningen har det været svært at fremtvinge hurtige godkendelser blandt myndighederne. Forskere finder nu nye veje til at fremskynde oversættelsen af deres konklusioner til konkret politik, skriver IRIN NEWS onsdag.
LONDON: In the fight against malaria, it took years of consistent medical results on insecticide-treated bed nets to gain the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation in 2007. Governments will generally not implement an intervention without the WHO stamp of approval.
“After the evidence was collected, it took another decade for effective use of this intervention,” said Fred Binka, dean of the school of public health at the University of Ghana and former board member of WHO’s Roll Back Malaria Initiative.
“The problem was, who was to drive this evidence forward, when was it enough, and how do you move to policy?” Poor communication between researchers could also lead to confusion, difficulty and stalled policy recommendations, Binka noted.
But they are learning how to get approval in less time. After six years of experiments, talks began between WHO and researchers testing seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) in areas of sub-Saharan Africa where the disease is endemic. The WHO recommendation came in March 2012, just one year after the final trial results were published.
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