The Official Newsletter of the Asian Collaborative Training Network for Malaria

ISSN 1564-1333

ACTMalaria News May-June 2008

Volume 11, Issue 3

11/f Ramon Magsaysay Center, 1680 Roxas Blvd.,

Malate, Manila, Philippines

World Celebrates Malaria Day

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World Malaria Day/ Featured Alumni

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USAID Mekong Malaria Meeting

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Pharmaceutical Management

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Cambodia and Interpol, AIRC Online Training

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Announcements 5

Photo Gallery

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

CTMalaria member countries held their own celebrations in their respective countries. At the last Executive Board Meeting in Siem Reap, Cambodia, member countries pledged that they will join the world in celebrating World Malaria Day.

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The first annual World Malaria Day was celebrated last April 25. The world unites to increase awareness in the battle against malaria in Africa, Asia and the world. As part of this occasion, ACTMalaria joins the world in this en-deavor.

Indonesia, Vietnam and Philippines sent their activities and photographs related to World Malaria Day Celebration. Turn to page 4 for more World Malaria Day celebration in these countries.

World Malaria Day 2008

Dr. Nit attained Level 8 as Medical Scientist of Bureau of Vector Borne

Disease, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. She is the Chief of Re-

search and Development Section of the Laboratory Reference Center.

She has received her M.Sc. In Infectious Disease and her Ph.D. in

Tropical Medicine. She has attended and participated in various train-

ing workshops including Population Pharmacokinetics of antimalarial

drugs, Uppasala Universtiy, Sweden; Technical and Scientific Research

Training in the area of malaria, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropi-

cal, Lisbon, Portugal; Bioinformatics, Real-time PCR (Basic), Real-

time RT-PCR for detecting genotypes of Dengue, DNA sequencing for

dengue and malaria. Center for Travel & Tropical Medicine, University

of Toronto, Canada and an Advanced molecular malaria techniques,

Karolinska University, Sweden. #

W O R L D M AL A R IA D A Y P A G E 2

Featured Alumni—Dr. Kanungnit Congpuong

IEC Materials: http://www.actmalaria.net/index.php?page=iec&itemId=materials

Dr. Kanungnit Congpuong ACTMalaria Alumni

Drug Policy Development, 2000 Facilitator

MMFO, 2001 Course Coordinator

MMFO, 2009 Are you an ACTMalaria alumni? Do you want to be featured here? Please send us your CV at infonetwork@actmalaria.net

Manila, Philippines. Awarding of Malaria-Free Provinces Hanoi, Vietnam. Community meeting with 1,000 people

Jakarta, Indonesia. Malaria Day Press Briefing at Directorate General of Disease Control and Environ-mental Health

Visit http://www.actmalaria.net for more information

Yunnan, China. Dr. HAO Yang and experts on malaria in-spected malaria case in Ruili Hospital on 26 April 2008

USAID Mekong Malaria Programme Core Partners’ Meeting

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his meeting was organized by the WHO-Mekong Malaria Programme jointly with USAID - Regional Development Mission Asia in Bangkok held at Plaza Athenee Bangkok, A Royal Meridien Hotel last April 28-29, 2008. An overview of falciparum resistance to antimalarials in the Mekong region with special reference to the docu-mentation of artemisinin tolerant parasites was presented by Dr. Eva Christophel. USAID-funded partners presented their 6-month achievements against FY 2007. Other matters including containment of artemisinin tolerant parasites were discussed by the countries of Cambodia, Thailand and the Mekong region. #

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ACTMalaria and ACTMalaria Information Resource Center (AIRC) activities are made possible with the support from USAID-

Asia through WHO.

4th Philippine Partnership Forum to Fight TB, Malaria and AIDS

The fourth Philippine Partnership Forum to Fight TB, Malaria and AIDS was held last March 28, 2008 at the Philippine International Convention Center. This was attended by more than 60 participants from all sectors (private, government, NGOs, community-based, faith-based, academe and bilateral and multilateral part-ner agencies). The purpose of the forum is to nominate and elect new members for the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) and recognize the past CCM chairs, co-chairs and alternate chairs. #

Pharmaceutical Management

A new page called Pharmaceutical Management was added to ACTMalaria Web-site. This webpage was established to strengthen effective management of medi-cines. Pharmaceutical management is the set of practices aimed at ensuring the timely availability and appropriate use of safe, effective, quality medicines and related products and services in any health-care setting. Countries shifting their first-line treatment policies to artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) need a strong pharmaceutical management system to carry out the change successfully. A number of tools and publications could also be downloaded courtesy of MSH and RPM Plus. For more information, visit: http://www.actmalaria.net/index.php?page=pm #

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior for Cambodia, Mr Sar Kheng reinforced his country’s commitment to global police co-operation and particularly the fight against counterfeit pharmaceuticals, during a visit to the INTERPOL General Secretariat. “Cambodia is committed to working with its law enforcement partners, not only in Southeast Asia but across the world, to fight the problem of counterfeit medicines which is why we are pleased to support all efforts to target those criminal organiza-tions which profit from the misery of innocent people,” said Deputy Prime Minis-ter Kheng. Cambodia also offered to host a meeting to support and facilitate international co-operation in combating the production and distribution of counterfeit pharmaceuti-cals. Source: INTERPOL #

Cambodia and Interpol

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AIRC Online Training on Digital Scanning

A course for Online Training on Scanning were developed to enrich the contribu-tors capacity in sharing materials for AIRC. Six modules were created: imaging concepts, image files and formats, scanning, pdf production, uploading and archiv-ing. A pre-test will determine the level of understanding of each participant. Each module has also a post-test to evaluate the knowledge gained. Please visit http://resource.actmalaria.net for updates on this course. #

Announcements: Trainings / Meetings / Conferences

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13th International Conference for Infectious Diseases Date: June 19-22, 2008 Venue: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Website: http://www.isid.org/13th_icid/welcome.shtml 6th International Training Course on Management of Malaria September 1-5, 2008 Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, (WHO Collaborating Centre for Clini-cal Management of Malaria), Mahidol University, 420/6 Rajavithi Road, Bangkok 10400, THAI-LAND

Contact: Dr. Polrat Wilairatana Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Clinical Management of Malaria Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University 420/6 Rajavithi Road, Bangkok 10400, THAI-LAND E-mail: tmpwl@mahidol.ac.th cc: tmirunit@diamond.mahidol.ac.th thimasarnk@searo.who.int delacollette@searo.who.int Forms available at: http://forum.actmalaria.net/YaBB.pl?num=1203555892 17th International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria Date: September 29-October 3, 2008 Venue: International Convention Center Jeju (ICC Jeju), Korea Website: http://www.ictm17.org/content/invitation.asp

Date:13-14 October 2008 ] Venue: Imperial Queen's Park Hotel 199 Sukhumvit 22, Bangkok 10110, Thailand Website: http://www.jitmm.com/jitmm/index.php Email: jitmm@mahidol.ac.th MMFO 2009 To be conducted in early 2009. We will keep you updated for more details. Please visit http://actmalaria.net regularly. MMFO Contact Persons: Dr. Wichai Satimai - wichaisatimai@yahoo.co.th and Dr. Kanungnit Congpuong - nungnit@health.moph.go.th

Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting (JITMM 2008)

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Photo Gallery

ACTMalaria News CCD: Dr. Duong Socheat (Cambodia) Vice CCD: Dr. Samlane Phompida (Lao PDR) 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 © June 2008 An electronic copy can be downloaded from http://www.actmalaria.net.

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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, Timor-Leste and Vietnam are members. The network 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 stake-

holders on malaria problems affecting the region.

World Malaria Day Celebration in Vietnam

World Malaria Day Celebration in Indonesia