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Last Updated: 13/03/2018

Malaria Elimination Task Force II

Objectives

The overall goal of this project is to finalize and verify falciparum malaria elimination in four townships of Eastern Myanmar.

Highly-sensitive RDTs will be implemented to detect remaining hotspots and to reduce the remaining reservoirs by using Mass Screening and Treatment (MSAT).

Principal Institution

Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), Thailand

Principal Investigators / Focal Persons

François Nosten

Sub Projects

Highly-sensitive RDT evaluation study in Myanmar
Operational evaluation of Mass Screening and Treatment using ultrasensitive RDTs to reduce P. falciparum incidence in a malaria elimination program in Eastern Kayin State, Myanmar

External reference

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, How We Grant

Thematic Categories

Diagnostics
Targeting Foci

Date

Nov 2017 — Nov 2020

Total Project Funding

$7.75M

Funding Details

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), United States

Grant OPP1177406

Project Site

Myanmar

Deep Dives

Highly sensitive point-of-care diagnostics for P. falciparum

Malaria Elimination Task Force II

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