WHO announced EVIPNet Africa’s first series of policy briefs on malaria treatment, noting that “six countries in sub-Saharan have developed their own set of policy briefs on how to improve access to malaria treatment working with EVIPNet (Evidence-informed policy network).” EVIPNet was set up in response to a 2005 World Health Assembly resolution calling for WHO to establish or strengthen “mechanisms to transfer knowledge in support of evidence-based public health and health care delivery systems and evidence-based related policies”  WHO said that development of the policy briefs are “a significant achievement because it represents the first time that policy-makers, researchers, and members of civil society in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Uganda have collaborated with each other to better use scientific evidence to produce health policies.” The EVIPNet tools are now being applied to different problems in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. These include: maternal and child mortality; the integration of noncommunicable diseases programmes at community level; effective financing of primary health care; and outbreak response.

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