Intensifying malaria control and accelerating progress towards elimination in high transmission and hard-to-reach areas in Myanmar

Objectives

The activities conducted by the sub-recipents of this RAI2E grant will include:

• Provide diagnosis by testing for all suspected cases and treatment for all the positive malaria cases in static communities, mobile, migrant populations.
• Initiate active case finding at communities and at work sites and other sites with mobile/migrant populations.
• Train the village health workers (VHW) for malaria at Malaria Field Sites (MFS) and for referral for severe and complicated cases to nearest hospitals.
• Conduct mobile field team visits to mobile/migrant populations for an Active Case Detection (ACD) of malaria in addition to passive case detection.
• Conduct health education sessions in the community to promote awareness of malaria and to promote malaria services by VHWs.
• Conduct field monitoring visits by the mobile field teams to monitor the malaria services by the VHWs and to provide supportive supervisions and on-site trainings.
• Vector control: LLINs distribution to static populations from hard to reach and unmet area, and to migrant/mobile populations.
• Referral services for severe malaria cases to hospitals.
• Advocacy meetings with relevant stakeholders such as authorities from state, regional and township level, related departments and other partners.
• Strengthen DHIS2 Data Management and Surveillance System to generate quality, timely private surveillance reports.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Supportive supervision to volunteers through monthly/quarterly meetings at health facility level.