Preparing for certification of malaria elimination, second edition

Preparing for certification of malaria elimination, second edition

This document provides extended guidance to countries that are nearing malaria elimination on preparing for certification. It provides an overview of the certification process and details of activities required in national preparation for certification. It includes tools that countries can use to organize the documentation required for certification, to prepare a national elimination report and to assess their readiness for certification. Guidance on verification of subnational malaria elimination, a process overseen by national authorities, is also provided. This second edition clarifies the definition of human infections of Plasmodium knowlesi and its implications to certification and includes the template for national elimination report in Annex 4.