2007 Meeting and Activities Archives

 Containment of Malaria Multi-Drug Resistance on the Combodia-Thaialnd Border: report of an Informal Consultation Phnom Penh, 29-30 January 2007  (PDF file, 200 KB)

 Monitoring Resistance of P. FALCIPARUM and P. VIVAX to Anti-Malarial Drugs in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region, Report of an Informal Consultation, Phuket, Thailand, 3-5 September 2007

Programme Managers and scientists from Mekong countries alongside with partners and donors agreed during

a WHO informal consultation in Phuket, Thailand to use standardized

WHO protocols to conduct in vivo therapeutic efficacy studies in selected sentinel sites in 2008 and 2009

(Phuket, Thailand, 3-5 September 2007)

In a remote village of Tachileik township in Myanmar, discussion takes place with local authorities and village malaria volunteers

who are using rapid tests to diagnose malaria and to provide powerful artemisinin-based combination treatment.

Across Mekong countries (a remote village of Cambodia shown here), bed nets are widely used by people living in malaria endemic areas.

Such conventional nets, when impregnated with insecticide at least once a year,

are becoming powerful tools against infected mosquito bites.

Many kinds of drugs of variable quality are available in local shops in Mekong countries including antimalarials and monotherapies

which contribute to increased parasite resistance to artemisinin derivatives.

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