Expansion of malaria surveillance along eastern, western and southern borders of Thailand
Key Activities
• Work with PHO and local hospital management teams to get a summary of existing facilities and identify gaps.
• Organize workshop with public health staffs of these hospitals in order to share benefits and how-tos from existing METF. (timely case reporting, elements of case investigation, organization of RACD.
• Set up a data circulation system allowing timely reporting to PHO (through the Malaria on line system) and ensure these data are locally analyzed. (through basic epidemiology training).
• Support pregnant women (migrant and ethnic Karens) surveillance, through monthly malaria smears and hematocrit surveillance during pregnancy. (malaria and anaemia prevention / early detection, G6PD PoC testing).
• Support these structure to set up strong public engagement activities (support them in the organization of PE workshops) in order to promote and access to BCC.
• Support vector assessment, with training sessions / sharing our entomology surveys protocols by our entomology team.
• Organize malaria-related data to be reported timely to PHO (through the Malaria on line system) and ensure these data are locally analyzed.
• Train all village health workers (community) and hospital medics to take blood spots dried on filter paper and sent to the lab for resistance determination.
• Identify specific gene mutations related to resistance.
• Map the trends of the resistances (K13 mutations) and communicate them to authorities.
• Conduct Ultrasensitive RDT (UsRDT) prevalence surveys in high-incidence areas in order to pilot priorities.
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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Tak | N/A | N/A | 19839 | 26 |
Yala | N/A | N/A | 2236 | 2 |
Narathiwat | N/A | N/A | 53 | N/A |
Songkhla | N/A | N/A | 414 | N/A |