Strong malaria surveillance systems also help design effective health interventions and evaluate the impact of malaria control programmes.
Malaria surveillance is the continuous and systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of malaria-related data
The data collected during malaria surveillance is used in the planning, implementation and evaluation of public health practice. Improved Malaria surveillance enables countries to monitor changing disease patterns and determine the appropriate interventions for affected populations or groups.
Our Ongoing Projects on Malaria Survellance
Rapid Pooling Project
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In partnership with the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) in Ghana, this project aims to improve the Malaria Molecular Surveillance system of Ghana by introducing an innovative surveillance scheme involving rapid collection of blood samples from malaria patients by clinical staff as a preserved liquid sample, combined with rapid laboratory pooling, and next-generation sequencing.
The project is currently running on the sentinel sites established by the NMEP and we hope to fully integrate this innovative scheme into the National malaria surveillance program.
Recent News
Indoor residual spraying with a non-pyrethroid insecticide reduces the reservoir of Plasmodium falciparum in a high-transmission area in northern Ghana
High-malaria burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa are shifting from malaria control towards elimination. Hence, there is need to gain a contemporary understanding of how indoor residual spraying (IRS) with non-pyrethroid insecticides when combined with long-lasting...
Perspectives on returning individual and aggregate genomic research results to study participants and communities in Kenya: a qualitative study
A fundamental ethical challenge in conducting genomics research is the question of what and how individual level genetic findings and aggregate genomic results should be conveyed to research participants and communities. This is within the context of minimal...