STRENGTHENING NATIONAL CAPACITY IN MALARIA

加强国家防治疟疾的能力

• 批准号: 8823120
• 负责人: Don P Mathanga
• 金额: $ 75.69万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8823120
• 关键词: STRENGTHENING; NATIONAL; CAPACITY; MALARIA

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): Morbidity and mortality from malaria remains unacceptably high in Malawi, despite the scale up of various malaria control interventions. This high burden could be as a result of problems in 1) program implementation, 2) uptake and utilization of interventions, 3) absence of a proper program monitoring and evaluation and possibly 4) lack of relevant research to support the program. The Malaria Alert Centre is applying on behalf of the College of Medicine; University of Malawi to undertake a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA to support the Malawi Ministry of Health's efforts to reduce malaria related morbidity and mortality. This cooperative agreement proposal has six main objectives. Objective 1 consists of the conduct of malaria operational research and monitoring and evaluation activities in Malawi. The Ministry of Health has identified collection of entomological indicators as one of the key monitoring and evaluation activities featured highly in this proposal. Objective 2 will develop and validate the impact of revised, enhanced or novel Interventions that will contribute to effective malaria control in Malawi. Since there is a lot of co-morbidities in Malawi, objective 3 will assess strategies to reduce the burden of other infectious diseases. Objective 4 consists of supporting the Ministry of Health in translating the many operational research findings into policy whilst objective 4 and 5 will improve malaria surveillance systems and build capacity for these in the ministry. In order to achieve these, a number of field and laboratory studies have been suggested. The center will also establish a knowledge hub to facilitate communication between researchers and policy makers to support the translation of knowledge into policy. A number of monitoring and evaluation activities have also been proposed, including efforts to build capacity to evaluate the program. Most of the proposed activities are unique and relevant to the national and global malaria control agenda. The activities will be conducted in collaboration with the National Malaria Control Program, with technical support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) and other centers of excellence. This cooperation will build reasonable local capacity to undertake future malaria research on behalf of the Ministry of Health. Data and lessons learnt will be shared with the Ministry of Health, President Malaria Initiative (PMI), USAID and other malaria implementing partners for wider dissemination, to promote the implementation of evidence based malaria interventions.

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管各种疟疾控制干预措施的规模缩小了，但马拉维的疟疾发病率和死亡率仍然令人难以置信。这种高负担可能是由于问题实施问题而导致的，2）摄取和利用干预措施，3）缺乏适当的程序监控和评估，以及可能4）缺乏支持该计划的相关研究。疟疾警报中心代表医学院申请；马拉维大学与美国疾病控制与预防中心达成合作协议，以支持马拉维卫生部为减少疟疾相关的发病率和死亡率而努力。该合作协议提案有六个主要目标。目标1包括马拉维的疟疾运营研究，监测和评估活动的进行。卫生部已将昆虫学指标的收集确定为本提案中高度介绍的关键监测和评估活动之一。目标2意志 开发和验证修订，增强或新颖的干预措施的影响，这将有助于马拉维有效控制疟疾。由于马拉维有很多合并症，目标3将评估减轻其他传染病负担的策略。目标4包括支持卫生部将许多运营研究结果转化为政策，而目标4和5将改善疟疾监视系统，并在 事工。为了实现这些目标，已经提出了许多现场和实验室研究。该中心还将建立一个知识中心，以促进研究人员与政策制定者之间的沟通，以支持将知识转化为政策。还提出了许多监视和评估活动，包括建立评估能力的努力 程序。拟议的大多数活动都是独特的，并且与国家和全球疟疾控制议程有关。这些活动将与国家疟疾控制计划合作进行，并得到疾病控制与预防中心（美国）和其他卓越中心的技术支持。这种合作将建立合理的地方能力，代表卫生部进行未来的疟疾研究。所学到的数据和经验教训将与卫生部，总统疟疾倡议（PMI），美国国际开发署和其他疟疾实施合作伙伴进行更广泛的传播，以促进实施基于证据的疟疾干预措施。