Project Title: China -UK -Tanzania Pilot Project on Malaria Contol:Application of Commuinity - Based and Integrated Strategy Consulting Service to reduce malaria disease burden
Project Description: China and African countries have a long history of health cooperation. Chinese government has dispatched medical teams to African and other developing countries since 1960s, and established 30 anti-malaria centres in Africa in recent years. Malaria was prevalent seriously in China, which significantly hindered the socio economic and political development of the country. However, China reached the remarkable achievements during 60 years unremitt efforts on Malaria control programme. To summarize the Chinese key experiences, governmental... China and African countries have a long history of health cooperation. Chinese government has dispatched medical teams to African and other developing countries since 1960s, and established 30 anti-malaria centres in Africa in recent years. Malaria was prevalent seriously in China, which significantly hindered the socio economic and political development of the country. However, China reached the remarkable achievements during 60 years unremitt efforts on Malaria control programme. To summarize the Chinese key experiences, governmental leadership, capacity building, intersectoral cooperation and community based engagement play a very important role in malaria control. Many others are also essential including the consistent application of an integrated, evidence based approach with the local tailored strategy and measure targeted to the malaria epidemiological profiles. Therefore, rich experiences have been accumulated that could be shared with other malaria endemic countries. Tanzania is one the African countries with high malaria morbidity, so china is ready to share its experiences and lessons on reduce the morbidity of malaria burden as well as to strengthen the capacity of malaria for the local communities, Rufiji, located in southern Tanzania, is selected as the pilot area of this project. Two communities of Rufiji are selected as pilot sites, one of which is a high malaria incidence community with over 20% incidence, while low malaria incidence community with less than 5% incidence. The T3- strategy of the World Health Organization will be integrated with Chinese malaria control experience for the exploration of a proper strategy and model that tailor to the local settings. The efficiency of malaria control activities will be improved in terms of parasitological examination rate standardized treatment rate and case reporting rate, after establishment or improvement of malaria control programme in pilot communities. The expected outcomes by the end of 2 years project are proposed that the parasitological examination rate in the high and low incidence communities be increases to over 85% and 90%, the standardized treatment rate in high and low incidence communities be increased up to 80% and 85% and the 3-day case reporting rate in high and low incidence communities be lifted to more than 85% and 90% and the 2 weeks foci treatment rate in high and low incidence communities be more than 80% and 90% respectively. Consequently, the disease burden of malaria decrease by 30% in the high incidence community in comparison with that in the beginning of the project, and the malaria transmission will further reduced to enter into pre elimination stage with the slide position rate (SPR) less than 5% in low incidence community. Finally, those feasible malaria control approaches will be assessed by external evaluation and then scaled up and implemented to other arears of African countries including Tanzania , to the finally accelerate the malaria control progress in Africa.
Principal Investigator : Prosper Chaki
Department Name : EHES
Time frame: (2015-03-01) - (2018-06-30)
The National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (Normal)
The National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (Normal)
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