Technical Assistance to Scaling Up of Malaria Control in Myanmar Funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Key Activities
• Provide technical assistance to NMCP for Active Case Detection of malaria and diagnosis as per national policy for migrant/mobile population through the use of worksite volunteers/village health volunteers and/or mobile teams
• Provide support to Department of Food and Drug Administration (DFDA) to strengthening drug quality monitoring and drug sample analysis to detect fake antimalarials and substandard drugs
• Provide technical assistance to NMCP to raise community awareness on early diagnosis and quality treatment on malaria in terms of IEC/BCC strategy
• Provide technical assistance to NMCP in LLINs distribution in term of microplanning, monitoring LLIN coverage
• Provide technical assistance to NMCP for malaria surveillance, monitoring and evaluation
• As secretariat of Malaria TSG, WHO will support the Chair of Malaria TSG (DOH/VBDC) to help ensure that the Malaria TSG serves as a forum for consensus building to address technical and operational challenges
Location | Total Population | Target Population | Tested Number of suspected malaria cases received parasitological test | Positive Case Number of malaria cases received antimalarial treatment |
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Hlaingbwe | N/A | N/A | 3589 | 35 |
Ngape | N/A | N/A | 4605 | 3 |
Saw | N/A | N/A | 5811 | 2 |
Sidoktaya | N/A | N/A | 6892 | 11 |
Homalin | N/A | N/A | 28967 | 83 |