The aim of this research is to quantify the abundance, composition, behaviour and transmission potential of Anopheles spp. mosquitoes in the forest and farm environments where residual malaria transmission occurs, and to assess the effectiveness, acceptability, feasibility and cost-effectiveness of a personal protection package to reduce malaria transmission in populations at high risk of malaria transmission.
2021-2024
This multinational research project includes a comprehensive vector survey conducted in rural Vietnam using multiple mosquito capture techniques to determine vector abundance and host-seeking behaviours. Additionally, a stepped wedge cluster randomised control trial with mixed methods of a personal protection package for mobile migrant populations will be implemented in over 400 rural villages in Cambodia and Lao PDR to determine its effectiveness, acceptability and sustainability.
This project is implemented to develop and field-test the effective personal protection package(s) for MMPs and forest goers to better cut malaria transmission in these groups; thereby contributing towards malaria elimination in GMS and broadly in the Asia-pacific region.
Funding
Partners
- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- National Health and Medical Research Council
Partners +
Collaborators
- National Malaria Control Programme, Myanmar
- Centre of Malariology Parasitology and Entomology, Lao PDR
- National Centre for Parasitology Entomology and Malaria Control, Cambodia
- National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology, Vietnam
- Health Poverty Action
- Deakin University, Australia
Project
Team
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