Malaria elimination gaining ground in the Asia Pacific
Maxine Whittaker2012, Malaria Journal
visibility
…
description
3 pages
link
1 file
Countries in the Asia Pacific region are making substantial progress toward eliminating malaria, but their success stories are rarely heard by a global audience. "Malaria 2012: Saving Lives in the Asia-Pacific," a conference hosted by the Australian Government in Sydney, Australia from October 31 to November 2, 2012, will provide a unique opportunity to showcase the region's work in driving down malaria transmission. One of the features of Malaria 2012 will be the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN), which has focused on harnessing the collective experiences of 13 countries through regional political and technical collaboration since its inception in 2009. Run by country partners, APMEN unites a range of partnersfrom national malaria programmes and academic institutions to global and regional policymaking bodiesto support each country's malaria elimination goals through knowledge sharing, capacity building, operational research and advocacy.
Related papers
Ending Malaria Transmission in the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) Countries: Challenges and the Way Forward
Towards Malaria Elimination - A Leap Forward, 2018
Member countries in the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) are pursuing the global goal of malaria elimination by 2030. Different countries are in various phases of malaria elimination and this review aims to present a compilation of available evidence on the challenges and way forward for malaria elimination in APMEN countries. Malaria transmission in these States is complex. APMEN member countries include the largest populations living in areas of malaria transmission risk outside Africa. They are a global source for spread of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) resistance, include the biggest burden of Plasmodium vivax and zoonotic malaria, and face many geopolitical and socioeconomic factors that will challenge malaria elimination efforts. These challenges can be addressed in part through operational research to identify country-specific solutions, making better use of operational data such as through spatial decision support system (SDSS) approaches, strengthening surveillance, and cross-border initiative for coordinated action.
Targeting populations at higher risk for malaria: a survey of national malaria elimination programmes in the Asia Pacific
Malaria Journal, 2016
Background: Significant progress has been made in reducing the malaria burden in the Asia Pacific region, which is aggressively pursuing a 2030 regional elimination goal. Moving from malaria control to elimination requires National Malaria Control Programmes (NMCPs) to target interventions at populations at higher risk, who are often not reached by health services, highly mobile and difficult to test, treat, and track with routine measures, and if undiagnosed, can maintain parasite reservoirs and contribute to ongoing transmission. Methods: A qualitative, free-text questionnaire was developed and disseminated among 17 of the 18 partner countries of the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN). Results: All 14 countries that responded to the survey identified key populations at higher risk of malaria in their respective countries. Thirteen countries engage in the dissemination of malaria-related Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) materials. Eight countries engage in diagnostic screening, including of mobile and migrant workers, military staff, and/or overseas workers. Ten countries reported distributing or recommending the use of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) among populations at higher risk with fewer countries engaging in other prevention measures such as indoor residual spraying (IRS) (two countries), spatial repellents (four countries), chemoprophylaxis (five countries), and mass drug administration (MDA) (three countries). Though not specifically tailored to populations at higher risk, 11 countries reported using mass blood surveys as a surveillance tool and ten countries map case data. Most NMCPs lack a monitoring and evaluation structure. Conclusion: Countries in the Asia Pacific have identified populations at higher risk and targeted interventions to these groups but there is limited information on the effectiveness of these interventions. Platforms like APMEN offer the opportunity for the sharing of protocols and lessons learned related to finding, targeting and successfully clearing malaria from populations at higher risk. The sharing of programme data across borders may further strengthen national and regional efforts to eliminate malaria. This exchange of real-life experience is invaluable to NMCPs when scarce scientific evidence on the topic exists to aid decision-making and can further support NMCPs to develop strategies that will deliver a malaria-free Asia Pacific by 2030.
Report of the 2018 annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network Vector Control Working Group: harnessing skills and knowledge for malaria elimination across the Asia Pacific
Parasites & Vectors, 2021
The 2018 Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network’s Vector Control Working Group (APMEN VCWG) annual meeting took place 3–5 September 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand. It was designed to be a forum for entomology and public health specialists from APMEN country programmes (over 90 participants from 30 countries) to discuss current progress and challenges related to planning, implementing, and sustaining effective vector control (VC) strategies for malaria elimination across the region, and to suggest practical and applicable solutions to these moving forward. The meeting was organised as a joint collaboration between the VCWG host institution—Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand—and leading partner institutions within the VCWG: Malaria Consortium and the Malaria Elimination Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco, Global Health Group (UCSF Global Health Group), under the leadership of the APMEN Director and VCWG Co-Chairs from ministries of health in...
Multilateral Initiative on Malaria: Justification, Evolution, Achievements, Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Plans
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2007
Malaria is a major public health problem; about half of the world's populations live under exposure. The problem is increasing in magnitude and complexity because it is entwined with low socio-economic status, which makes African women and children particularly vulnerable. Combating malaria therefore requires concerted international efforts with an emphasis on Africa. The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) was founded in 1997 to meet that need through strengthening research capacity in Africa, increasing international cooperation and communication, and utilization of research findings to inform malaria prevention, treatment, and control. The review undertaken in 2002 showed that through improved communication and science-focused institutional networks, MIM had brought African scientists together, opened up communication among malaria stakeholders, and provided Internet access to literature. The achievements were made through four autonomous constituents including the coordinating Secretariat being hosted for the first time in Africa by the African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET) for the period 2006-2010. The other constituents are the MIM TDR providing funding for peer-reviewed research; MIMCom facilitating Internet connectivity, access to medical literature, and communication between scientists inside and outside of Africa; and MR4 providing scientists access to research tools, standardized reagents, and protocols. Future plans will mostly consolidate the gains made under the MIM Strategic Plan for the period 2003-2005. JUSTIFICATION FOR INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION TO FIGHT MALARIA
Gaps in research and capacity development for malaria surveillance and response in the Asia–Pacific: meeting report
Malaria Journal, 2023
Background This report is based on the 2021 annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Malaria Elimination Network Surveillance and Response Working Group held online on November 1-3, 2021. In light of the 2030 regional malaria elimination goal, there is an urgency for Asia-Pacific countries to accelerate progress towards national elimination and prevent re-establishment. The Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) Surveillance Response Working Group (SRWG) supports elimination goals of national malaria control programmes (NMCPs) by expanding the knowledge base, guiding the region-specific operational research agenda and addressing evidence gaps to improve surveillance and response activities. Methods An online annual meeting was hosted from 1 to 3 November 2021, to reflect on research needed to support malaria elimination in the region, challenges with malaria data quality and integration, current surveillancerelated technical tools, and training needs of NMCPs to support surveillance and response activities. Facilitator-led breakout groups were held during meeting sessions to encourage discussion and share experience. A list of identified research priorities was voted on by attendees and non-attending NMCP APMEN contacts. Findings 127 participants from 13 country partners and 44 partner institutions attended the meeting, identifying strategies to address malaria transmission amongst mobile and migrant populations as the top research priority, followed by cost effective surveillance strategies in low resource settings, and integration of malaria surveillance into broader health systems. Key challenges, solutions and best practices for improving data quality and integrating epidemiology and entomology data were identified, including technical solutions to improve surveillance activities, guiding priority themes for hosting informative webinars, training workshops and technical support initiatives. Interregional partnerships and SRWG-led training plans were developed in consultation with members to be launched from 2022 onwards. Conclusion The 2021 SRWG annual meeting provided an opportunity for regional stakeholders, both NMCPs and APMEN partner institutions, to highlight remaining challenges and barriers and identify research priorities pertaining to surveillance and response in the region, and advocate for strengthening capacity through training and supportive partnerships.
Kourion in the Long Late Antiquity a reassessment
Kourion in the Long Late Antiquity a reassessment, 2023
BELLEZA, MISERICORDIA Y TRANSFORMACIÓN DEL ALMA: LA DIMENSIÓN INTERIOR DEL ǦIHĀD SEGÚN LA PERSPECTIVA SUFÍ
AZUFRE ROJO VIII, 2020
Throughout Islamic history, the practice of Jihad, as an striving effort in the name of God in accordance with Quranic revelation, has been a matter of great controversy. In fact, after the conquest of the Dar al-Islam by the European colonial powers from the beginning of XIX century onwards, which triggered a process of secularisation that would have dramatic consequences for the constitution of the Ummah, such perception aggravated even more deeply, particularly from the western viewpoint, as the challenges presented by the colonial rule brought as consequence a series of military resistance movements that sprang across the whole Islamic world, many of them wagging Jihad. The Sufi tradition has exhorted, throughout its long history and with emphatic gravity, about the urgent need to recognise the ontological dimension that distinguish the practice of Jihad, namely, as a struggle of the soul to appease itself and thus accepting divine will. In this way Sufis have discerned the preeminence of the spiritual dimension of Jihad over other types of interpretations that could alter its real meaning, thus avoiding reducing it to simple political activism or mere juridical impositions. For that purpose, Sufi hermeneutics has incessantly insisted on the need to refer all forms of action to the prophetic model as the supreme ideal for all authentic action, a viewpoint that became even more decisive from the start of the modern age, an era dominated by the dramatic rise of secularism and the subsequently fall of the old political Islamic order. In that sense, the efforts carried out by great Sufi sages such as the Emir Abd el-Qadir in Argelia and Ahmadou Bamba in Senegal, should be seen as the most authentic expression of Jihad, that is to say, as a genuine reflection inspired on the prophetic model. From the Sufi perspective, only the action that results from contemplation or, in other words from the centre of the heart, will be an action that shall lead to the revelation of the Divine Presence, prelude of the All-Merciful.
From Elite Pamphleteers to Social Movement Protagonists: Antisemitic Activism in 1920s Romania
Studies on National Movements, 2019
Black Power, Black Panther
Course syllabus for my class "Black Power, Black Panther," which is a revision of my previous Panther Theory course. This course shifted a bit of attention away from Elaine Brown and instead spent more time with Stokley Carmichael/Kwame Turé's work.
Gosling et al. Malaria Journal 2012, 11:346
https://www.malariajournal.com/content/11/1/346
COMMENTARY
Open Access
Malaria elimination gaining ground in the
Asia Pacific
Roly D Gosling1*, Maxine Whittaker2, Cara Smith Gueye1, Nancy Fullman1, Mario Baquilod3, Rita Kusriastuti4
and Richard GA Feachem1
Abstract
Countries in the Asia Pacific region are making substantial progress toward eliminating malaria, but their success
stories are rarely heard by a global audience. “Malaria 2012: Saving Lives in the Asia-Pacific,” a conference hosted by
the Australian Government in Sydney, Australia from October 31 to November 2, 2012, will provide a unique
opportunity to showcase the region’s work in driving down malaria transmission. One of the features of Malaria
2012 will be the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN), which has focused on harnessing the collective
experiences of 13 countries through regional political and technical collaboration since its inception in 2009. Run
by country partners, APMEN unites a range of partners – from national malaria programmes and academic
institutions to global and regional policymaking bodies – to support each country’s malaria elimination goals
through knowledge sharing, capacity building, operational research and advocacy.
Commentary
Malaria is a global disease, yet knowledge of it outside
sub-Saharan Africa remains limited. As the Asia Pacific
makes great strides toward eliminating malaria, its success
stories are not always heard within the region, let alone
among global audiences [1]. The Asia Pacific Malaria
Elimination Network (APMEN) aims to fill this gap
through regional political and technical collaboration,
harnessing the collective experiences of 13 malariaeliminating countries (see Figure 1) and stakeholders to
form a regional initiative to foster information exchange,
evidence generation and advocacy for malaria elimination.
Founded in 2009, APMEN supports malaria programme capacity building and works to elevate underrepresented, region-specific issues in the global malaria
arena. Substantial attention is rightfully directed towards
sub-Saharan Africa and Plasmodium falciparum with its
higher malaria morbidity and mortality [2]. Subsequently, malaria is often perceived as less problematic in
places like the Asia Pacific. However, the Asia Pacific Region faces some of the most serious challenges when it
comes to malaria control and elimination. The emergence of P. falciparum artemisinin drug resistance in the
* Correspondence: [email protected]
1
The Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, CA, USA
Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
Mekong Region threatens local populations and, if it
spreads, will have serious repercussions around the
globe. Also important is the control of Plasmodium
vivax, a relatively neglected malaria parasite [3]. This
form of malaria is more widespread than P. falciparum
malaria with 2.9 billion people at risk of infection, of
which 90% live in the Asia Pacific [4-7].
APMEN’s Vivax Working Group addresses knowledge
gaps on P. vivax through the initiative’s research grant
programme, capacity-building and research collaborations. This work also aims to augment country
programme capacity in research methods and implementation, including in-country technical visits. In 2012,
the Working Group launched a multi-center clinical
trials programme for primaquine treatment, and held
workshops on genotyping P. vivax and assessing glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency.
The Asia Pacific’s diversity of malaria vectors (19 different species) poses unique challenges for elimination
because many bite and rest outside [8,9] rendering most
domicile-based interventions, like insecticide-treated
nets and indoor residual spraying, less effective [9,10].
To address these issues, the APMEN Vector Control
Working Group collects, reviews and disseminates the
latest vector control evidence and implementation strategies from the region. With its focus on building
© 2012 Gosling et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative
Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Gosling et al. Malaria Journal 2012, 11:346
https://www.malariajournal.com/content/11/1/346
Page 2 of 3
Figure 1 Map of the 13 countries in the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) and when each country joined the network.
capacity, several vector control workshops are planned
for 2012–2013 and the research agenda includes topics
such as the effectiveness of personal protective methods
for targeted high-risk groups (e.g., rubber tappers, forest
workers).
To further build capacity, APMEN collaboratively
designs and implements training programmes with partners, including the World Health Organization (WHO).
In 2012, these focused on the use of geographic information systems for targeting resources and developing
community engagement strategies for malaria elimination. Each year, APMEN provides funding for five
short-term training opportunities through its Fellowship
programme, allowing Fellows to learn technical skills
from a partner country or institution which then can
be shared with their home malaria programmes. For
example, in 2010 a Fellow from Bhutan Vector-borne
Disease Control Programme was hosted by the Indonesia
National Malaria Control Programme to help improve
strategies for community engagement.
To document programme experiences, share lessons
learnt and determine priorities, APMEN hosts annual
technical meetings and produces a series of country case
studies that report successful approaches and challenges
for malaria elimination [11,12]. During the fourth annual
APMEN meeting in Seoul, held in May 2012, priorities
for the next two years were set that included leveraging
APMEN’s experiences to halt the spread of artemisininresistance by pursuing a P. falciparum-free Mekong
Delta and to solve the challenges of diagnosing and
radically treating P. vivax. Further learning to support
these priorities comes from the cases studies. The first
APMEN case study from Bhutan, demonstrated how
imported malaria from neighbouring high-endemic
countries affects elimination programmes [11]. Ongoing
case studies in Malaysia and the Philippines focus on
using intersectoral collaboration and pursuit of malaria
elimination in a decentralized health system, respectively. The APMEN matrix project, an open access webbased information exchange promotes sharing of
programme policies with the aim to create an evolving
repository of current elimination strategies and challenges to inform future research, programme planning
and capacity building in the Asia Pacific.
The most serious threat of resurgent malaria with
subsequent epidemics with high mortality and drug
resistance, most often caused by reductions in malaria
programme financing with scaling-down of control activities, must be avoided [13]. As a unified voice advocating for malaria elimination in the region, APMEN
is well positioned to galvanize the crucial political and
financial support to ensure that the gains made in the
fight against malaria are maintained through to elimination. This regional voice will be heard during the
Gosling et al. Malaria Journal 2012, 11:346
https://www.malariajournal.com/content/11/1/346
“Malaria 2012: Saving Lives in the Asia Pacific,” a conference hosted by the Australian Government in Sydney, Australia October 31st – November 2nd. This
summit will emphasize the importance of regional political and technical collaboration to meet control and
elimination targets and to address the challenge of
emerging artemisinin drug resistance. At Malaria 2012,
APMEN will share its experience in unifying and supporting countries in the region fighting to be free of
malaria.
Page 3 of 3
12. Abeyasinghe R, Galappaththy GNL, Smith Gueye C, Kahn JG, Feachem RGA:
Malaria control and elimination in Sri Lanka: Documenting progress and
success factors in a conflict setting. PLoS One 2012, 7:e43162.
13. Cohen JM, Smith DL, Cotter C, Ward A, Yamey G, Sabot OJ, Moonen B:
Malaria resurgence: a systematic review and assessment of its causes.
Malar J 2012, 11:122.
doi:10.1186/1475-2875-11-346
Cite this article as: Gosling et al.: Malaria elimination gaining ground in
the Asia Pacific. Malaria Journal 2012 11:346.
Abbreviations
APMEN: Asia pacific malaria elimination network; G6PD: Glucose-6-phosphate
dehydrogenase deficiency; WHO: World health organization.
Competing interests
RDG, MW, CSG and NF are part of the APMEN Joint-Secretariat. MB and RK
serve on the APMEN Advisory Board. RGAF is the APMEN Co-Chair.
Author details
1
The Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, CA, USA. 2Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health,
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Herston,
Australia. 3Department of Health, National, Center for Disease Prevention and
Control, Manila, Philippines. 4Vector Borne Disease Control Programme,
Ministry of Health, Jakarta, Republic of Indonesia.
Received: 12 October 2012 Accepted: 14 October 2012
Published: 18 October 2012
References
1. Hsiang MS, Abeyasinghe R, Whittaker M, Feachem RGA: Malaria elimination
in Asia-Pacific: an under-told story. Lancet 2010, 375:1586–1587.
2. Organization WH: World Malaria Report. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO;
2011:2011.
3. Feachem RGA, Phillips AA, Hwang J, Cotter C, Wielgosz B, Greenwood BM,
Sabot O, Rodriguez MH, Abeyasinghe RR, Ghebreyesus TA, Snow RW:
Shrinking the malaria map: progress and prospects. Lancet 2010,
376:1566–1578.
4. Price RN, Tjitra E, Guerra CA, Yeung S, White NJ, Anstey NM: Vivax malaria:
neglected and not benign. AmJTrop Med Hyg 2007, 77:79–87.
5. Carrara VI, Sirilak S, Thonglairuam J, Rojanawatsirivet C, Proux S, Gilbos V,
Brockman A, Ashley EA, McGready R, Krudsood S, Leemingsawat S,
Looareesuwan S, Singhasivanon P, White N, Nosten F: Deployment of early
diagnosis and mefloquine-artesunate treatment of Falciparum malaria in
Thailand: the Tak Malaria Initiative. PLoS Med 2006, 3:e183.
6. Guerra CA, Howes RE, Patil AP, Gething PW, Van Boeckel TP, Temperley WH,
Kabaria CW, Tatem AJ, Manh BH, Elyazar IRF, Baird JK, Snow RW, Hay S: The
international limits and population at risk of Plasmodium vivax
transmission in 2009. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2010, 4:e774.
7. Sattabongkot J, Tsuboi T, Zollner GE, Sirichaisinthop J, Cui L: Plasmodium
vivax transmission: chances for control. Trends Parasitol 2004, 20(4):192–198.
8. Sinka ME, Bangs MJ, Manguin S, Rubio-Palis Y, Chareonviriyaphap T, Coetzee
M, Mbogo CM, Hemingway J, Patil A, Temperley WH, Gething PW, Kabaria
CW, Burkot TR, Harbach RE, Hay SI: A global map of dominant malaria
vectors. Parasit Vectors 2012, 5:69.
9. Trung HD, Van Bortel W, Sochantha T, Keokenchanh K, Briët OJT,
Coosemans M: Behavioural heterogeneity of Anopheles species in
ecologically different localities in Southeast Asia: a challenge for vector
control. Trop Med Int Health 2005, 10:251–262.
10. Somboon P, Lines J, Aramrattana A, Chitprarop U, Prajakwong S,
Khamboonruang C: Entomological evaluation of community-wide use of
lambdacyhalothrin impregnated bed nets against malaria in a border
area of north-west Thailand. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1995, 89:248–254.
11. Yangzom T, Smith Gueye CS, Namgay R, Galappaththy GNL, Thimasarn K,
Gosling RL, Murugasampillay S, Dev V: Malaria control in Bhutan: case
study of a country embarking on elimination. Malar J 2012, 11:9.
Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central
and take full advantage of:
• Convenient online submission
• Thorough peer review
• No space constraints or color figure charges
• Immediate publication on acceptance
• Inclusion in PubMed, CAS, Scopus and Google Scholar
• Research which is freely available for redistribution
Submit your manuscript at
www.biomedcentral.com/submit
Related papers
Problems and Employability of Architectural Drafting Technology Students of Surigao Norte State University
International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology, 2024
D Tipo Asmenybių Su Implantuotu Elektrokardiostimuliatoriumi Gyvenimo Kokybės Aspektai
Medicinos teorija ir praktika, 2017
Art. „Ballenstedt“, Art. „Vetschau“, Art. „Wittenburg“,
in: Residenzstädte im Alten Reich (1300–1800). Ein Handbuch, hrsg. von Gerhard Fouquet u.a. Abteilung I, Teil 1, hrsg. von Harm von Seggern, Ostfildern 2018, S. 23–25, S. 591–592, 636–638.
Analisis Partisipasi Masyarakat Dalam Program Pengendalian Vektor DBD
Jurnal kesehatan, 2019
Pendidikan Keterampilan Hidup (Life Skill) Anak Usia Dini Selama Masa Pandemi COVID-19 DI Lingkungan Keluarga
TEMATIK: Jurnal Pemikiran dan Penelitian Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini, 2020
Modern Bilimin Sosyal Kökenleri - Edgar Zilsel (Çeviri)
Düşünen Şehir Dergisi, 2018
MISC Mobility in Smart Cities
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017
Tugas Budaya Pemikiran politik Indonesia
pemikiran politik Martin Luther