Thesis
Community engagement for targeted malaria elimination in Lao PDR (Laos)
- Alternative title:
- Community engagement for Malaria elimination
- Abstract:
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The emergence of artemisinin-resistant malaria in Southeast Asia has prompted malaria control programs to expedite efforts to eliminate malaria. One suggested approach is the mass administration of antimalarials (MDA) to entire target population regardless of malaria infection. MDA is one of the central components of Targeted Malaria Elimination (TME), an approach recently piloted in Laos. For MDA to be successful (leading to interruption of local malaria transmission), a high population c...
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+ Cheah, P
Department:
Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Role:
Supervisor
+ Pell, C
Department:
Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Role:
Supervisor
+ Mayxay, M
Department:
Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Laos
Role:
Supervisor
+ Day, N
Role:
Supervisor
+ Parker, M
Department:
The Wellcome Centre for ethics and humanities, and the ethox centre
Role:
Examiner
Funding
The Wellcome Trust
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Deposit date:
- 2019-02-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Adhikari, B
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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