Greater Mekong Subregion
Increasing trends of malaria in a border area of the Greater Mekong Subregion
... anti-malarial drugs and mosquitoes resistant to insec- ticides significantly hamper the global efforts to control and eliminate malaria [1]. In addition, reduction in finan- cial support in high-burden countries was also ...
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Eliminate now: seven critical actions required to accelerate elimination of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion
... The emergence in 2009 of Plasmodium falciparum parasites resistant to the primary therapies currently in use (artemisinin-based combination therapy, ACT) in Southeast Asia threatens to set back decades of global progress ...
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Molecular characterization and mapping of glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) mutations in the Greater Mekong Subregion
... the Greater Mekong Subregion, a multi‑centre study was carried out to assess the prevalence of G6PD deficiency and to identify the main G6PD variants in samples collected in Cambodia, Lao PDR, ...
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Private sector opportunities and threats to achieving malaria elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion: results from malaria outlet surveys in Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Thailand
... In the GMS, the role of the private sector has been recognized as an important source of anti-malarial treatment in many countries, including Cambodia, Myanmar, and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). Supply-side ...
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An analysis of health system resources in relation to pandemic response capacity in the Greater Mekong Subregion
... the Mekong Basin Disease Surveil- lance (MBDS) network has been facilitating cooperation in surveillance and control efforts across the land borders of countries in the Greater Mekong ...
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Improving Livelihoods and Prosperity through Value Added Agriculture: East West Economic Corridor of Greater Mekong Subregion
... e Action Plan: Undertake the following activities: a extension of organic farming methods to all Khao Kho Agricultural Farm Cluster members under strict standards required of internation[r] ...
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Intensified food production and correlated risks to human health in the Greater Mekong Subregion: a systematic review
... To determine a set of appropriate search terms we began with the most obvious combinations of “intensified food production”, “agricultural intensification”, “livestock production”, “human health” and “Greater ...
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An Examination of Determinants That Affect the Health-Service Systems and Health Status of People in the Greater Mekong Subregion
... The findings reported here were collected from a larger series of studies conducted in 2011 - 2014 that investigated the health-service systems, health status, and affecting fac- tors am[r] ...
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Occupational, physical, sexual and mental health and violence among migrant and trafficked commercial fishers and seafarers from the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS): systematic review
... Studies were eligible for inclusion if they: 1) included males or females from the GMS region working as com- mercial marine fishers/seafarers anywhere in the world; 2) measured the prev[r] ...
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How can interventions that target forest goers be tailored to accelerate malaria elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion? A systematic review of the qualitative literature
... The findings provide an overview of qualitative research on behaviours and perceptions that influence uptake of and adherence to malaria prevention and control inter- ventions among forest-goers in the GMS. The review ...
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Ivermectin susceptibility and sporontocidal effect in Greater Mekong Subregion Anopheles
... Ivermectin mass drug administration MDA has been suggested as a possible malaria parasite transmission control tool as it directly targets the vector at the point of human blood feeding.[r] ...
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Malaria elimination in Lao PDR: the challenges associated with population mobility
... and Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) economic corridors that cut through endemic areas in GMS countries and extensively in Lao PDR [12, 13] will mean that an increasing number of people and possibly ...
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Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations of seventh biannual meeting (March 2015)
... the Greater Mekong Subregion elimination strategy; an update on the RTS,S vaccine; G6PD testing to support the safe use of anti-relapse therapy for Plasmodium vivax; update from the Vector Control ...
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Establishment of the Ivermectin Research for Malaria Elimination Network: updating the research agenda
... resistance to the four classes of public health insecticides has risen worldwide [1,3,4]. In addition, malaria vector behaviour can shift from primarily biting indoors to out- doors and outside the time window that ...
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High mobility, low access thwarts interventions among seasonal workers in the Greater Mekong Sub-region: lessons from the malaria containment project
... the Greater Mekong Sub-region, mobile and migrant populations (MMPs) have been identified as the most at-risk groups due to activities in which they engage, as well as the health system’s inability to reach ...
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Uncertainty in climate change projections of discharge for the Mekong River Basin
... Results of this study demonstrate the importance of un- derstanding the roles and interaction of changes in temper- ature and the implications of this for both PET and stor- age of precipitation as snow or ice. Together ...
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Mental health, violence and psychological coercion among female and male trafficking survivors in the greater Mekong sub-region: a cross-sectional study
... Studies conducted with trafficked females and males suggest that there are sex-related differences in survi- vors’ mental health. The present study builds on earlier findings from the Study on Trafficking, Exploitation ...
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Saving the Mekong River Basin
... The literature on water resources management, based on game theory approaches (Dinar et al, 1992; Dinar and Dinar, 2003; Madani, 2010 and references therein), shows that shar- ing the total economic bene…ts from ...
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High mobility, low access thwarts interventions among seasonal workers in the Greater Mekong Sub region: lessons from the malaria containment project
... the Greater Mekong Sub-region, mobile and migrant populations (MMPs) have been identified as the most at-risk groups due to activities in which they engage, as well as the health system’s inability to reach ...
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The Politics of Engaged Geography on the Mekong
... (http://sydney.edu.au/mekong/publications/centre_publications/mekong_briefs.sht ml), which are mostly published in association with conferences or other key events. We have also issued a number of reports that ...
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