Targeting vivax malaria in the Asia Pacific: the Asia Pacific malaria elimination network vivax working group
Anstey, Nicholas M., Auburn , Sarah, Baird, J. Kevin, Battle, Katherine E., Bobogare, Albino, Chancellor , Arna , Chasombat , Sanchai, Cheng , Qin, Domingo, Gonzalo J. , Drakeley , Christopher J., Drukpa, Tobgyel, Dysoley, Lek, Fe Esperanza, Espino, Gething, Peter W., Ghimire, Prakash, Gosling, Roly D., Grewal-Daumerie, Penny, Hay, Simon I., Howes, Rosalind E., Hwang, Jimee, Karim, Jahirul , Khan, Wasif Ali , Kim, Jung-Yeon , Ley, Benedikt , Mannion, Kylie, McCarthy, James, Keong, Wan Ming , Mueller, Ivo, Namgay, Rinzin , Price, Ric N., Qi, Gao , Rebueno, Marvi , Reeder, John, Richards, Jack, Sattabongkot-Prachumsri, Jetsumon , Shanks, G. Dennis , Sibley, Carol Hopkins , Surya, Asik , Taleo, George , Thang, Ngo Duc , Thongpaseuth, Vonethalom , Thriemer, Kamala , Trimarsanto, Hidayat , Vestergaard, Lasse S., von Seidelein, Lorenz , and Whittaker, Maxine (2015) Targeting vivax malaria in the Asia Pacific: the Asia Pacific malaria elimination network vivax working group. Malaria Journal, 14. 484.
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Abstract
The Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) is a collaboration of 18 country partners committed to eliminating malaria from within their borders. Over the past 5 years, APMEN has helped to build the knowledge, tools and in-country technical expertise required to attain this goal. At its inaugural meeting in Brisbane in 2009, Plasmodium vivax infections were identified across the region as a common threat to this ambitious programme; the APMEN Vivax Working Group was established to tackle specifically this issue. The Working Group developed a four-stage strategy to identify knowledge gaps, build regional consensus on shared priorities, generate evidence and change practice to optimize malaria elimination activities. This case study describes the issues faced and the solutions found in developing this robust strategic partnership between national programmes and research partners within the Working Group. The success of the approach adopted by the group may facilitate similar applications in other regions seeking to deploy evidence-based policy and practice.
| Item ID: | 43879 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Case Study) |
| ISSN: | 1475-2875 |
| Keywords: | malaria; Plasmodium vivax; APMEN; Asia-Pacific; elimination |
| Copyright Information: | © 2015 World Health Organization; licensee BioMed Central. |
| Additional Information: | This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article’s original URL. |
| Funders: | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Australian Government (DFAT), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Malaria for Medicine Venture |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jun 2016 02:43 |
| FoR Codes: | 11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1103 Clinical Sciences > 110309 Infectious Diseases @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 92 HEALTH > 9201 Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) > 920109 Infectious Diseases @ 100% |
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