172 items related to 'Resistance management'
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Resources: Project report :
Assessment of Malaria Surveillance in Myanmar
The primary aim of this assessment is to evaluate current approaches to malaria surveillance in Myanmar and to provide a set of practical and feasible recommendations to further strengthen the…
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Positive Deviance: An innovative approach to improve malaria prevention and treatment practices among mobile and migrant workers in Cambodia
Reaching mobile and migrant populations is one of the key strategies in the containment and elimination of artemisinin resistance in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Positive Deviance (PD) is an…
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Moving towards malaria elimination: tools for strengthening malaria surveillance in Cambodia
Prior to 2009 the main source of malaria case data in Cambodia came from the National Health Information System (HIS) which provided aggregate data at operational district (OD) level. Whilst useful…
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Summary report of the technical cross border workshop on malaria case management for artemisinin resistance containment
Objective of this workshop is to harmonise the cross border malaria case management procedures and strategies to contain artemisinin resistant malaria.
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Proceedings from the workshop on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) indicators for the Bill & Melinda Gates supported project: “a strategy for the containment of artemisinin resistant malaria parasites in Southeast Asia
Recent evidence from limited studies has suggested that artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum parasites are present on the Thai-Cambodian border. The spread of artemisinin resistance, if…
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Summary report of the workshop on development of strategy to contain artemisinin resistant malaria among migrants and mobile populations
This joint workshop between Thailand and Cambodia is a follow up to the Informal Consultation of experts for the “Development of a Strategy Towards Elimination of Plasmodium falciparum Parasites with…
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Workshop to consolidate lessons learned on BCC and mobile/migrant populations in the strategy to contain artemisinin resistant malaria
BCC and IEC interventions play a key role in reducing the incidence of malaria. In both Thailand and Cambodia, a number of innovative approaches have been developed targeting mobile and migrant…
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Summary from the technical workshop on cross border IEC/behaviour change communication strategies to contain artemisinin resistant malaria
There is evidence for the emergence of artemisinin resistance along the Cambodia Thailand border area. In recognition of this worrying situation as a global emergency, the World Health Organization…
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Containment of artemisinin resistance in Southeast Asia - how to ensure that progress towards malaria elimination does not falter
Asia has fought resistance to one drug after another from the 1970s. Research in recent years has confirmed an increased parasite clearance time on the Thai-Cambodian border. The biggest problem is…
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Positive deviance: An asset-based approach to improve malaria outcomes
This learning paper describes a pilot project in north-west Cambodia that used positive deviance as a method of behaviour change communication for malaria control. Positive deviance is a behaviour…
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Positive deviance: an innovative approach to improve malaria outcomes in Myanmar
This presentation is one of a series prepared for the Malaria Consortium symposium Taking the resistance out of elimination at the Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting (JITMM) in Bangkok on…
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Malaria Consortium at 10: Moving towards elimination
Malaria Consortium was founded in 2003 by a small team of people with a vision - to build the capacity of malaria-endemic countries worldwide to deal with a common and treatable disease that was…
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Innovative Malaria M&E, Research and Surveillance towards Elimination
This project brief describes a project to improve malaria programming implementation in the Greater Mekong Subregion and build an evidence platform capable of developing and evaluating operational…
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Minimising the development of antibiotic resistance
Increasing access to treatment goes hand-in-hand with efforts to prevent antibiotic resistance In its recent report, the World Health Organization (WHO) called the spread of antibiotic-resistant…
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Getting rational about pneumonia
"Whilst it is the responsibility of individuals to ensure that drugs are used rationally, the consequences of irrational use are global," says Kirstie Graham. Photograph: Malaria Consortium Malaria…
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Antibiotic resistance: a ticking time bomb for public health?
With the spread of resistance to antibiotics, bacterial diseases are increasingly difficult to control and treat. Understanding resistance and identifying ways to control it are public health…
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Strategy to address migrant and mobile populations for malaria elimination in Cambodia
In order to support the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control (CNM) to ensure successful accomplishment the goals of the National Malaria Elimination Strategy 2025, the aim…
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Myanmar Artemisinin Resistance Containment survey: diagnosis and treatment
This poster is one of a series of presentations for the 62nd ASTMH Annual Meeting. It discusses a malaria survey of households (hh) conducted in Myanmar in 2012 in the areas of known and suspected…
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Myanmar Artemisinin Resistance Containment survey: malaria awareness and prevention
This poster is one of a series of presentations for the 62nd ASTMH Annual Meeting. It discusses a malaria survey of households (hh) conducted in Myanmar in 2012 in the areas of known and suspected…
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Private sector SMS referral system pilot
This project brief describes piloting a SMS technology in the private sector to improve referrals and integrate private patient data into the National Malaria Information System (MIS) in Cambodia.…