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20th ICTMM digital delegate bag

Welcome to our digital delegate bag for the 20th International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria

Here you'll find a hand-picked selection of our publications showcasing our work across diseases and interventions in the GMS. We've also shared key publications relating to our strategy and advocacy work that demonstrate our commitment to saving lives and improving health in Africa and Asia, through evidence-based programmes that combat targeted diseases and promote universal health coverage.

MMW testing woman at family plantation at Mondulkiri province, Pich Reda district June 2021

Our publications

  • Improving equitable access to malaria services

    Expanding mobile malaria services to hard-to-reach communities in northern Cambodia

    Through the RAI3E project, we are contributing to Cambodia's goal of eliminating Plasmodium falciparum by 2023 by supporting the continued delivery of effective malaria prevention and control services, especially to hard-to-reach communities.

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    Countering the spread of drug-resistant malaria in northern Cambodia 

    In Cambodia, partial resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapy has been confirmed in malaria parasites. To support elimination of Plasmodium falciparum and prevent further emergence of resistant mutations, strengthened malaria case management is key.

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    Mobile malaria services for hard-to-reach communities in northern Cambodia

    In Cambodia, forest goers who live and work in remote areas are the most vulnerable to malaria infection. Since December 2015, we have been training mobile malaria workers to diagnose and treat malaria among this high-risk group.

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    Building capacity for malaria elimination in southern Cambodia

    The RAI2E project will improve existing malaria prevention and control services and build the technical and programme management skills of provincial health department, operational district and health centre staff in southern Cambodia.

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    Expanding rural communities' access to health services in Myanmar

    Malaria Consortium scaled up the integrated community case management approach from three to six townships of Sagaing region. The project sought to strengthen support for volunteers to further develop their skills, improve the ability of basic health staff to provide the necessary supervision, and address shortage of stocks for rapid diagnostic tests and medicines.

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    Training malaria volunteers to deliver integrated community case management

    To eliminate malaria by 2030 and improve the health status of rural communities in Myanmar, Malaria Consortium implemented an integrated community case management approach in Sagaing region.

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    iCCM in Myanmar: Lessons from the Saigang region

    From June 2016 to June 2017, Malaria Consortium implemented a pilot project that integrated and scaled up Myanmar's two community case management components to ensure the health system has the capacity to respond to all major childhood illnesses.

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  • Strengthening community resilience

    Social behaviour change capacity statement 

    We implement evidence-based malaria SBC activities to promote community engagement, combat targeted diseases, improve public health outcomes and promote universal health coverage across Africa and Asia.

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    Positive deviance: An asset-based approach to improve malaria outcomes

    Role models were selected from both the resident community and mobile and migrant workers, who practised uncommon but positive behaviour with regards to malaria prevention and control. Our learning brief summarises learnings from the project, which ran from 2010-2012

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    Community-led solutions to antimicrobial resistance

    This study aims to generate evidence supporting the recognition of community engagement (CE) as a critical tool to address antimicrobial resistance in (inter)national policies. Together with project partners, we're implementing and evaluating an innovative CE intervention in Bangladesh and Nepal.

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    Engaging teachers and students to control dengue in Myanmar

    The My School project in Myanmar aims to assess the impact of integrated vector control and community-based participatory interventions in schools.

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    A guide to implementing the Community Dialogue Approach

    This guide is intended for health programme implementers who want to help communities make healthy choices. It introduces the community dialogue approach: an innovative and participatory approach used to achieve and sustain social action towards improving the health of communities.

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    Controlling vectors and engaging communities to control dengue in Cambodia

    To prevent and limit dengue transmission, we trialled a socio-ecological vector control strategy using guppy fish distribution for larval source control, and the introduction of low-cost mosquito traps, combined with social interventions.

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  • Advocacy and positioning

    Malaria Consortium Asia

    In Asia, we provide technical assistance and consulting services that shape and strengthen national and international health policies, strategies and systems, and develop local capacity.

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    Malaria Consortium Cambodia 

    Malaria Consortium has established itself as a leading technical research and implementing organisation in Cambodia, with a presence in the country since 2003.

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    Malaria Consortium Myanmar

    In Myanmar, we have forged strong relationships with in-country and regional partners and government bodies, and offer a wealth of technical expertise drawn from our programmes and research.

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    Vaccines: The cornerstone of disease burden reduction 

    Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death of under-fives globally and are responsible for nearly half of all child deaths annually. Immunisation against these illnesses is one of the most effective means of preventing their spread and severity.

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    Antimicrobial resistance: a growing threat to global health 

    Antimicrobial resistance contributes to at least 700,000 deaths globally every year. Without urgent action, millions of lives are at risk and economies will suffer.

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    Stemming the rising tide of global dengue position statement

    Dengue is the world’s fastest growing vector-borne disease. To tackle it, we urgently need to increase funding for vaccine development, improve real-time case surveillance systems, strengthen vector control tools, amplify community engagement and enhance global collaboration. 

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    Eliminating Malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion

    Around 15 years ago, worrying news from Asia made international headlines. There was evidence that new strains of the malaria parasite were developing resistance to artemisinin-derivatives. Used in combination therapies, these were the most potent antimalarial drugs in the fight against malaria. Resistance had been detected in Pailin province on the border of Thailand and Cambodia, raising global fears that malaria treatments might become ineffective.

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