Networking

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Overview of networks for monitoring
the therapeutic efficacy of antimalarial
drug for the treatment of P. falciparum
Horn of Africa Network, Cairo, Egypt

22-25 March 2004
Dr P. Ringwald Roll Back Malaria Department
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Networking

• Network at the national level
• Sentinel sites
• Standardised protocol
• Training
• QC
• Network at the Regional level
• Exchange of information
• Border malaria
• Policy changes
• country support through the network
• Network between research and public health
  sector
  
• Participation in monitoring
• New tools
• New treatments

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Regional Networks

• Africa
• EANMAT (East African Network for Monitoring
  Antimalarial Treatment)
  
• RACTAP (Réseau dAfrique Centrale des
  Thérapeutiques Antipaludiques)
  
• RAOTAP I and II (Réseau dAfrique de lOuest des
  Thérapeutiques Antipaludiques)
  
• RER-OI (Réseau dEtude de la Résistance aux
  antipaludiques dans la sous-région Océan
  Indien)
  
• SANMAT (Southern Africa Network for Monitoring
  Antimalarial Treatment)
  
• South East Asia
• Mekong network
• BBIN (Blangadesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal)
• South America
• RAVEDRA

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African Regional networks
RAOTAP 1
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RAOTAP 2
RACTAP
EANMAT
RER-OI
SANMAT
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African Regional networks

• EANMAT (East African Network for Monitoring
  Antimalarial Treatment) Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda,
  Tanzania, Uganda
  
• RACTAP (Réseau dAfrique Centrale pour le
  Traitement Antipaludique) Angola, Cameroon,
  CAR, Chad, Congo, DRC, Gabon, G. Equatorial
  
• RAOTAP I (Réseau dAfrique de lOuest pour le
  Traitement Antipaludique) Carp-Vert, Gambia,
  Guinee, G. Bissau, Mauritanie, Senegal
  
• RAOTAP II (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote dIvoire,
  Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, S. Leone, Togo)
  
• RER-OI (Réseau dEtude de la Résistance aux
  antipaludiques dans la sous-région Océan Indien)
  Madagascar, Comores, Mayotte
  
• SANMAT (Southern Africa Network for Monitoring
  Antimalarial Treatment) Botswana, Malawi,
  Mozambique, Namibia, S. Africa, Swaziland,
  Zambia, Zimbabwe.