Despite all the challenges thrown at us over the last 2 years we are finally up and running, with over 1500 patients already recruited in WP-A (investigating causes and outcomes of febrile illness in rural communities across South and Southeast Asia). Our wonderful team in Savanakhet, Laos were first off the mark last year, and have now been joined by the new sites in Chiangrai, Thailand, in Pailin and Battambang, Cambodia, and in Karen State, Myanmar. We hope the new sites in Southern Thailand and in Bangladesh will come online in the coming weeks too, as soon as local EC approvals and site agreements are in place.
Other SEACTN activities already off the ground include the stakeholder interviews, led by Dr Marco Liverani, and the verbal autopsies taking place in Laos and soon to be launched in Cambodia and in Chiangrai, Thailand.
A massive thank you to all the SEACTN team in Bangkok and in all the sites for all the perseverance in getting us this far!