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Malaria Control in Suriname
drs. Panchoe, MD and drs. H. Cairo
Bi- National Health Meeting, Georgetown, Guyana 11 – 13 July 2013
Situational analysis
Strategies
• The policy of malaria control has been translated into 3 main strategies
– Emphasis on Rapid Diagnosis and prompt effective Treatment
– Behavior Change Communication– Selective vector control with the emphasis on
LLINs
Malaria Services
• Medical Mission Primary HealthCare Suriname
• Anti Malaria Campaign (AMC) - Bureau of Public Health
• MoH Malaria Program: “Looking for gold, finding malaria”– Tourtonne laboratory– Malaria Service Deliverers
• Hospitals, Gorvernment- and private clinics
History of malaria control in Suriname
• Beginning of the 20th: case management and chemoprophylaxis for travelers
• 1949 to 1955: larval control and residual insecticide spraying as main strategies.
• 1958: MEP adopted – AMC established• 1984: Operational malaria control activities in the interior
were transferred to MMPHCS• 1997: the MM introduced ITN for all villages in the
interior• 1995: the National Malaria Board was installed• 2004: ACT (Coartem®)introduced• 2005 - 2010: MM-MP started• 2009 – present day: Gold miner’s Malaria Program
Malaria trend (Suriname cases)
Malaria by country of origin
Challenges
• How to work together towards elimination
• How to contain the emergence resistance against ACT (elimination)
• How to deal with the high cost of malaria elimination
• How to jointly deal with mobile populations and imported cases (elimination in the Guyana Shield)
Areas of Collaboration
• Strategic Plans aiming at elimination and containment of resistance
• Joint effort to raise funds for elimination
• Exchange of information
• Joint research
• Treatment protocols