Technical Assistance to Scaling Up of Malaria Control in Myanmar Funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Project Title: Technical Assistance to Scaling Up of Malaria Control in Myanmar Funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Donor:
GF-RAI2E grant
Principal Recipient:
SCI Co PR
Implementing Sub-Recipient:
Save the Children International
Date:
01 January 2018 to 31 December 2020

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

CSV
Results from Jan-Dec 2023
Location Total Population Target Population Tested Number of suspected malaria cases received parasitological test Positive Case Number of malaria cases received antimalarial treatment
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