On 12 Nov, MORU’s Dr Rupam Tripura and Dr Bipin Adhikari, with local NGO director Dr Vanna Moul, introduced our new community-based studies to the provincial authorities. The studies, Village Malaria Worker Expansion (CAM-VMW) and Incidences, Causes, and Outcomes of Febrile Illness in Rural South and Southeast Asia (SEACTN-WP-A), will evaluate expanded roles and new diagnostics for village malaria workers, and also explore the main causes of illness in rural communities. The projects will run in parallel during 2022-23 in approximately 90 villages and the research will be done in partnership with MORU’s long-term collaborators Dr Lek Dysoley, Dr Chan Davoueng and Dr Yok Sovann.
– Thank you, Tom Peto for text and Rupam Tripura for photo.