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First
regional course on case
management of malaria, 8 to
15 November 2009, Wad Medani,
Sudan
The World Health
Organization Regional Office
for the Eastern
Mediterranean is organizing
the first regional course on
the case management of
malaria.
The course will be conducted
in the Blue Nile National
Institute for Communicable
Diseases, University of
Gezira, from 8 to 15
November 2009.
12th
International
diploma course on malaria
programme planning and
management, 13 November 2009 to
7 January 2010, Bandar
Abbas,
Islamic Republic of Iran
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, School of Public Health, in collaboration with the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, will organize the 12th International diploma course on malaria programme planning and management. The course will be conducted from 13 November 2009 to 7 January 2010 in the malaria training centre in Bandar Abbas, Islamic Republic of Iran.
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3rd International Course on Advanced Malaria Microscopy & Quality Assurance at the Central Malaria Laboratory (WHO Regional
Center of Excellence in Malaria Microscopy),
Directorate of Malaria Eradication, Ministry of Health Sultanate of Oman in collaboration with World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Oman, 15th October – 14th November 2009
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Workshop on use of serological techniques in malaria
epidemiology and management for HANMAT countries
Alexandria, Egypt, 2-4 June 2009
The
workshop is for endemic countries of Horn of Africa, Saudi Arabia and
Yemen. The first 2 days of the workshop will be for training on ELISA
techniques specific for laboratory focal points in NAMRU3 Lab facility
in Cairo. The second part of the workshop will be in Alexandria to
discuss on malaria serological techniques and their use in surveys, new
updates on RDTs and resistance to ACTs and plan for drug efficacy
studies in 2010-11. In this workshop participants will update network
objectives and discuss inclusion of other M&E and surveillance
activities in HANMAT mandate.
Workshop programme
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Advanced international training course on malaria
surveillance, monitoring and evaluation,
Moscow, Russia, 25 May - 15 June 2009
This
course will take place in Moscow, Russian Federation from May 25 to June 15,
2009 for key African scientists in area of malaria surveillance, monitoring
and evaluation. This course is being organized in collaboration with the WHO
and is a part of the capacity development project supported by the Russian
Federation.
The venue of the training course will be the Martzinovski Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine. This Institute was established in 1921, and one of its major achievements was planning, implementation and evaluation of the state malaria programme eradication in the USSR. Since then, it has played a key role in the maintenance of malaria free status through well developed and highly efficient malaria surveillance/vigilance system. The Martzinovski Institute is working closely with the WHO, and at one time was a WHO Collaborating Center on malaria, leishmaniasis, vector biology and control equipment testing. It has also carried studies on epidemiology of disappearing malaria, post-eradication epidemics, helminthiasis, control and preventive measures.
This course on various
aspects of malaria surveillance will be conducted by the faculty consisting
of the staff of the Martzinovski Institute in collaboration with other
institutions, particularly the Russian Medical Academy for Postgraduate
Training, Moscow University and Rospotrebnadzor (under Ministry of Health of
Russian Federation). The number of participants will be limited to 15
persons from African countries in Africa and Eastern Mediterranean Regions
of WHO. Working language of the course will be English.
Course programme
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Regional course on
training of trainers on use of malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs)
Sana'a,
Yemen, 17-19 May 2009
Diagnosis
is the key to effective case management, which represents one of the main
interventions for malaria control and elimination. This achieved by
laboratory diagnosis aiming at demonstration of malaria parasites in cases
of fever suspected as malaria by microscopy or by antigen-detecting malaria
rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs). Up till now, laboratory diagnosis of malaria
has relied mainly on microscopy, which is the gold standard and the key
diagnostic method for malaria parasitological confirmation.
During the past ten years, rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria have been developed. Such a development offers a complement to microscopy in some settings and areas where it is difficult to implement quality microscopy such as villages and remote areas.
RDTs can be used to detect only P. falciparum antigens or a combination of P. falciparum antigens and antigens common to all parasite species. Many tests are sold commercially. Recently, a standard mechanism for evaluation of RDT performance has been developed . This allows to distinguish between well and poorly performing tests and will guide procurement process and entry into WHO prequalification and procurement schemes.
Many malaria endemic countries in EMR started large scale introduction of RDTs. To respond to increasing needs for training on different aspect of RDT implementation, EMRO with support from Global Malaria Programme designed this TOT course. The course was conducted successfully from 17-19 May in Sana’a with participants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia , Somalia Sudan and Yemen.
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