ACTMalaria News

March-April 2007 Volume 10,

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2007 ACTMalaria EB and Partners...

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Training on the new In-vitro methods successfully con-

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AIRC Pre-test of User Manuals...

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elegates to the recently concluded 11th ACTMalaria

Executive Board (EB) and Partners Meeting held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia last March 19-21, 2007 renewed their commitments and again shared knowledge and expertise to achieve their mission of strengthening the regional capacity for improving the quality and effectiveness of malaria control. Except for Bangladesh, nine of the ten member countries were present during the meeting.

The highlights of this year’s meeting was the official hand-over of the post of the Co-ordinating Country Director (CCD) from Vietnam to Cambodia. ACTMalaria CCD for 2007-2008 is now Dr. Duong Socheat, the Director of CNM. The board also voted for Lao PDR represented by Dr. Samlane Phompida, CMPE Director, as the new Vice-CCD.

The discussions in this year’s meet-ing revolved around the strategic plan and the extent to which ACTMalaria intends to invite new countries to join the network and to expand to other vector-borne diseases. The first day was started by the special technical presentation by Dr. Pascal Ringwald of WHO-HQ who reviewed the current situation and the evolution of antimalarial drug resistance in the region. In his pres-entation, he emphasized the importance of continuous monitoring of drug resistance as part of the national programme activities. Day 2 and 3 were participated in by ACTMalaria partners, namely, USAID, WHO-MMP, WHO-Cambodia, BAAM-KIA, MSH, BASF, Syngenta, Tana Netting and Guangzhou University. Prof. Thuan, out-going CCD and Di-rector of NIMPE-Vietnam, delivered the mes-sage to welcome the partners and to thank the EB for their support during his term of office. (Cont’d in page 2)

11th ACTMalaria Executive Board Meeting March 19, 2007

2007 ACTMalaria Executive Board and Partners Meeting Concluded

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From page 1 2007 ACTMalaria Executive Board and Partners Meeting Concluded

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Dr. Charles Delacollette of WHO-MMP and Dr. John Mac Arthur of USAID-ASIA, as partners’ representative, also gave their messages during the EB-Partners Meeting. Secretary Mam Bunheng, the Secretary of State of MOH-Cambodia delivered the keynote message, advocating the importance of collaboration for successful malaria control in the region. . On day 3 of the meeting, after presenting on the ACT-Malaria plan for 2007-2011, partner organizations, including the private sector were given opportunity to present about their projects and involvements in malaria control in the region. The meeting concluded after the closing remarks from all the delegates.

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The workshop aimed to introduce the participants to the new methods of in-vitro testing of anti-malarials drugs and to strengthen standardization and quality control of testing done in the field.

The course was facilitated by international experts who have helped in the development and standardization of the different methods, namely, Dr. Pascal Ringwald of WHO-HQ, Dr. Jacques Le Bras of Groupe Hospitalier Bichat Claude Bernard of France, Dr. Harald Noedl of the Medical University of Vienna, Dr. David Bacon of NMRCD of USA and Dr. Frederick Ariey of Pasteur Institute of Cambodia. This training was supported by WHO/WPRO&MMP in collaboration with ACTMalaria, CNM-Cambodia & Institute Pasteur.

Training on the new In vitro methods successfully conducted

participants from eight countries joined the “Workshop on in vitro drug re-sistance testing of P. falcipa-rum sensitivity to antimalarial drugs” held in Institute Pas-teur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia from March 19-23, 2007.

←Left to right: Dr. Mac Arthur, Dr. So-cheat, Dr. Bunheng, Prof. Thuan and Dr. Delacollette

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CCD Handover: Dr. Mam Bunheng, Secretary of State, MOH-Cambodia witnessed as Prof. Thuan handed over the ACTMalaria symbol to Dr. Duong Socheat as the new CCD.

ACTMalaria Partners Meeting: March 20-21, 2007 Phnom Penh Hotel, Cambodia

Delegates to the EB-Partners Meeting. →

Country Number of Participants

Cambodia 3

China 2

Indonesia 1

Malaysia 1

Papua New Guinea

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Philippines 1

Thailand 1

Vietnam 1

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ACTMalaria News Coordinating Country Director: Dr. Duong Socheat Executive Coordinator: Ms. Cecilia T. Hugo Executive Assistant: Ms. Joy Ann B. Lico IT Assistant: Mr. Rogelio T. Mendoza, Jr. Information Resource Officer: Mr. Joseph M. Yap © April 2007 An electronic copy can be downloaded from http://www.actmalaria.net.

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AIRC conducted its first lap of user pre-test manuals in the three Mekong countries: Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. They first visited the CNM Li-brary (Cambodia) managed by Ms. Molyden Vann, CNM Librarian; second was the NIMPE Library (Vietnam) managed by Ms. Luong Thi Phuong Mai, NIMPE Librar-ian; and lastly the BVBD and DDC Library in MoPH Thailand where the li-brarians were Mr. Thachapong Kanchanangkul and Ms. Kanokwan Pothisai. The participants eagerly listened and were ask to perform actual tasks for them to better understand how the system works. In the short time spent in the three libraries, the librarians actively responded to the pre-testing and even agreed to share materials to the ACTMalaria Information Resource Center (AIRC). AIRC hopes to receive more materials this year for its Online Databases and to have its system updated and upgraded for better ac-cess and retrieval. This pre-testing and on-site visit was conducted to de-termine the capacities of existing libraries in member countries for the establishment of partner satellite databases in the local libraries. jmy

↑ Joseph with Molyden.

Joseph explaining the AIRC to the NIMPE Information Group. ↓

Bong with DDC people. ↓

Bong with Mr. Nam of NIMPE. →

Asian Collaborative Training Network for Malaria

ACTMalaria (Asian Collaborative Training Network for Malaria) is a training network to which the National Malaria Control Programmes of Bangladesh, Cambodia, PR China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and VietNam are members. The networks aims at 2 major activities:

• Provide collaborative training for member countries to meet the needs of malaria control in

Southeast Asia and the Mekong Sub-region; • Improve information and communication exchange among member countries, partners and

other stakeholders on malaria problems affecting the region.

AIRC Pre-test of User Manuals in Three Mekong Countries