Policy Brief: Improving Access to Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment in Remote Areas of the Amazon Basin Countries

It is important to build an evidence-based approach to justify the launch of new interventions and to evaluate their impact. The Amazon Malaria Initiative is advocating a systematic implementation of locally appropriate interventions and documentation of results. The Suriname Ministry of Health (MOH) commissioned a knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) study of malaria diagnosis and … Read more

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Malaria Quarterly Updates April-June 2014

This report briefly describes the major SIAPS country activities in Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Mali, and South Sudan as well regional activities for Latin America between April and June 2014.  

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Evaluation of the Performance of Malaria Control Strategies in Latin America, Using Adequacy Criteria

Adequate implementation of malaria control strategies requires compliance, at a minimum, with criteria involving the following components: The evidence on which the intervention is based, for example, studies of vector habits and sensitivity to insecticides and antimalarials  Adequate coverage of the target population The quality of implementation of the intervention Within the framework of the Amazon Malaria … Read more

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Guidelines at the Primary Level of Care Help Strengthen Antimalarial Supply Management of the Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment Network in Chocó, Colombia

The Department of Chocó has Colombia’s second-highest malaria burden. Malaria control is particularly difficult in this department as a result of its widely dispersed population, difficult geographical access, and frequent problems involving law and order. A study conducted in Chocó by the Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program in 2012 revealed … Read more

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Were Medicine Quality and Pharmaceutical Management Contributing Factors in Diminishing Artemisinin Efficacy in Guyana and Suriname?

Pribluda VS, Evans L, Barillas E, Marmion J, Lukulay P, Chang J. Were medicine quality and pharmaceutical management contributing factors in diminishing artemisinin efficacy in Guyana and Suriname? Malaria Journal. 2014;13:77. Read the full article

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Implantação da metodologia de supervisão local dos postos de diagnostico e tratamento de malária como reforço da estratégia de controle no Brasil

O Programa Nacional de Controle de Malária no Brasil (PNCM) considera a oportunidade e qualidade do diagnóstico, a disponibilidade do medicamento, sua adequada dispensação e a adesão ao tratamento essenciais para obtenção de êxito na estratégia de controle. Por isso considera que o monitoramento regular da qualidade desses serviços deve ser uma preocupação  permanente do … Read more

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Study on the knowledge, attitudes and practices of malaria and malaria treatment in the small-scale gold mining sector in Suriname

This report presents the results of a knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) study of malaria treatment in a small-scale gold mining sector in Suriname. The KAP study was commissioned by the Government of Suriname/Global Fund “Searching for Gold, Finding Malaria” program in collaboration with USAID-funded SIAPS and PAHO. The goal of the study was to document malaria treatment–seeking … Read more

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Informe de viaje a Brasilia, Brasil

Esta visita tuvo por objetivo participar en un taller de presentación y discusión de los resultados de estudio del desempeño de las estrategias de control de la malaria en nueve Estados Brasileños, usando criterios de adecuación. Durante esta visita también se presentaron los resultados del estudio de acceso y uso de medicamentos antimaláricos en áreas … Read more

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