Strategic Plan to Strengthen Malaria Control and Elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion 2010-2014 (PDF file, 564 KB)

Mekong Malaria Programme Core Partners Meeting Towards the Implementation of a 5-year Strategic Plan for Malaria Control and Elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion, Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers Bangkok, Thailand, 5th -6th October 2009 (PDF File, 217 KB)

MMP core partners met in Bangkok from 5 to 6 October 2010 to review progress made during the FY08 and plan activities expected to be implemented during the FY09.  In addition to technical discussion and planning review, the strategic MMP document entitled “Towards the Implementation of a Strategic Plan for Malaria Control and Elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion: 2010-2014” was presented to all MMP core partners and Mekong Malaria Programme Managers. During the two-day meeting, partners together reviewed the document, participated in a series of discussions around specific technical areas and provided inputs and recommendations to finalize the strategic MMP framework including M&E. The final draft will be made available to all malaria programme managers for their final inputs and endorsement at the next ACTMalaria board meeting in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR in March 2010. 

Workshop to review and plan therapeutic efficacy studies to monitor P. falciparum and P. vivax resistance to anti-malarial drugs in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, Mandalay, Union of Myanmar. September 30 - October 2, 2009 (PDF file, 976KB)

The Mekong malaria in vivo Therapeutic Efficacy Study (TES) Network, coordinated by WHO, aims to monitor the therapeutic efficacy of first line antimalarial drugs by promoting the use of a single standardized TES protocol across all Mekong countries. 

An informal consultation was organized in Phuket in September 2007, Thailand, with representatives and principal investigators from malaria control programmes of Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam and partners. Participants agreed to use the updated WHO TES protocol and related case management guidelines to monitor therapeutic failure of first line anti-malarial drugs in the GMS. Preliminary results from TES carried out in 2008 and 2009 in 34 sentinel sites were presented by PIs in Mandalay,

Myanmar in September 2009.  Longer Parasite Clearance Time (PCT) and decreasing efficacy rate (ACPR) of ACTs have been observed in Kawthaung on the south eastern part of Myanmar bordering Thailand, province of Ranong, where ACPR (using As-M) has been also declining since 2006. Preliminary results show also a longer PCT (at day 3 and beyond) to As7 monotherapy in Ruili, Yunnan province of China bordering Myanmar, and in Binh Phuoc Province in southern Viet Nam bordering Cambodia, province of Snoul. All results have to be confirmed.

Also noted during the workshop was the increasing complexity to recruit malaria cases through single sentinel site channel against required sample size in most of Mekong countries. New multi-district / sentinel sites approaches will be discussed and piloted to address that situation.