NEWS/UPCOMING EVENTS:

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APMEN IV: Annual Business and Technical Meeting
7-10 May, 2012, Seoul, Republic of Korea


APMEN Vivax and Vector Control Working Group Meetings
6-7 May, 2012, Incheon, Republic of Korea

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APMEN: VxWG Research Grants - Round 2

For more information including guidelines and application form, click here

**Submission deadline extended until 30 January, 2012**

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APMEN Newsletter: Issue Five, December 2011

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APMEN Atlas

For more information on the Atlas, including downloads, click here

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APMEN Country Partner Intervention Matrices available here

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With leadership from the Malaria Elimination Group (MEG) and the UCSF Global Health Group, the Lancet have published a special series of four papers and four comments on malaria elimination.  For more information on the series and associated events, please visit the Lancet here or the MEG site here.


Roll Back Malaria World Malaria Day 2009

Other News and Resources

Thursday
Feb092012

Human Plasmodium knowlesi infection in Ranong province, southwestern border of Thailand

View Malaria Journal article here

Monday
Feb062012

Bhutan declares malaria elimination

View VaccineNewsDaily.com article here

Monday
Feb062012

Cytoadherence and virulence - the case of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria

View Malaria Journal article here

Friday
Feb032012

Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis

View The Lancet article here

Monday
Jan302012

Strengthening the policy setting process for global malaria control and elimination

View Malaria Journal article here

Friday
Jan202012

Comparative effects of vivax malaria, fever and diarrhoea on child growth

View International Journal of Epidemiology article here

Thursday
Jan122012

Malaria control in Bhutan: a case study of a country embarking on elimination

Bhutan has achieved a major reduction in malaria incidence amid multiple challenges. This case study seeks to characterize the Bhutan malaria control programme over the last 10 years.

View Malaria Journal article here

Thursday
Jan122012

Understanding the population genetics of Plasmodium vivax is essential for malaria control and elimination

View Malaria Journal article here

Wednesday
Jan112012

Scale-up of community-based malaria control can be achieved without degrading community health workers' service quality: the Village Malaria Worker project in Cambodia

View Malaria Journal article here

Friday
Jan062012

Polymorphisms of the pfmdr1 but not the pfnhe-1 gene is associated with in vitro quinine sensitivity in Thai isolates of Plasmodium falciparum

View Malaria Journal article here

Wednesday
Jan042012

Malaria in pregnancy in the Asia-Pacific region

View The Lancet article here

Friday
Dec232011

Rapid Diagnostic Test-Based Management of Malaria: An Effectiveness Study in Papua New Guinean Infants With Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax Malaria

View Clinical Infectious Diseases article here

Thursday
Dec222011

Development and Evaluation of a Rapid Diagnostic Test for Plasmodium falciparum , P. vivax , and Mixed-Species Malaria Antigens

View The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene article here

Thursday
Dec222011

Spleen rates and infant parasite rates as surveillance tool for malaria control in remote hard to reach areas of central India

View Malaria Journal article here

Tuesday
Dec202011

Plasmodium vivax lineages: geographical distribution, tandem repeat polymorphism, and phylogenetic relationship 

View Malaria Journal article here

Friday
Dec162011

Fya/Fyb antigen polymorphism in human erythrocyte Duffy antigen affects susceptibility to Plasmodium vivax malaria 

View Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) article here

Friday
Dec162011

Prevalence and distribution of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) variants in Thai and Burmese populations in malaria endemic areas of Thailand

View Malaria Journal article here

Wednesday
Dec142011

Mapping of mosquito breeding sites in malaria endemic areas in Pos Lenjang, Kuala Lipis, Pahang, Malaysia

View Malaria Journal article here

Tuesday
Dec132011

Primaquine in vivax malaria: an update and review on management issues

View Malaria Journal article here

Friday
Nov042011

Vivax malaria in Mauritania includes infection of a Duffy-negative individual

View Malaria Journal article here