The objectives of this programme were to scale-up the targeted mass drug administration strategy regionally, and measure its effect on the incidence of clinical malaria in eastern Karen/Kayin state, Myanmar, a difficult-to-access hilly and forested area with complex political and geographical landscapes, where malaria transmission is seasonal and where artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum is prevalent.

Publications

• Molecular markers of artemisinin resistance during falciparum malaria elimination in Eastern Myanmar
  Thu et al
  Malaria Journal, 2024; 23(138)
  10.1186/s12936-024-04955-6
• Effect of generalised access to early diagnosis and treatment and targeted mass drug administration on Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Eastern Myanmar: an observational study of a regional elimination programme
  Landier et al
  The Lancet, 2018; 391(10133) 1916-1926
  10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30792-X