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ANNUAL MEETING

Location
Banyan Tree Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
Dates
Mon, 22-5-2023 - Wed, 24-5-2023

The 34th SME WG Annual Meeting that held from 22 to 24 May 2023, in Bangkok, Thailand, brought together 32 in-person SMERG participants from 12 countries. Moreover, online participants and speakers from various countries had the opportunity to attend through Zoom.

The main theme for the meeting was

“Malaria elimination surveillance in Southeast Asia – Documenting successes,challenges and lessons learned, in a context of the need for systems resilience to potential threats, to inform surveillance practice in other countries in the Africa region especially those developing
an elimination agenda.”   
      

The subthemes were as follows:
Sub-theme 1: Malaria elimination surveillance (structure, challenges, best practices)  (see presentations)
Sub-theme 2: Action report back (see presentations)
Sub-theme 3: Data for evaluation of malaria Interventions (see presentations)
Sub-theme 4: Diversity, quality, and use of data in surveillance for malaria elimination surveillance (see presentations)
Subtheme 5: RBM Partnership/Updates on SME WG business (see presentations)

Ressources

Thirty-fourth SME WG Meeting - Report
Thirty-fourth SME WG Meeting - Agenda
Thirty-fourth SME WG Meeting - List of Participants
Youth Resources

Sub-theme 1: Malaria elimination surveillance (structure, challenges, best practices)

 

PRESENTATIONS

The fight against malaria in Thailand: 

Dr. Rungrawee Tipmontree , DVBD, Thailand

Thailand Surveillance for elimination - experience and results

 Ms. Suravadee Kitchakarn, DVBD, Thailand

Cross-bordersurveillance, experience from Senegal/Gambia

Momodou Kalleh, NMCP, Gambia, and Latsouck Diouf, NMCP Senegal

Preparing country for elimination—Experience from Kenya

Jane Githuku, PMM/ICF, Kenya, and Joy Gakenia Murangiri, National Malaria Program, Kenya

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Sub-theme 2: Action report back

PRESENTATIONS

Defining key monitoring indicators for targeting of resources and actions

Global Fund indicator revision update, Erica Berlin, PSI. Presentation

theme 3

Sub-theme 3: Data for evaluation of malaria Interventions

PRESENTATIONS

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Sub-theme 4: Diversity, quality, and use of data in surveillance for malaria elimination surveillance

 

PRESENTATIONS

theme 5

Subtheme 5: RBM Partnership/Updates on SME WG business

PRESENTATIONS