Diagnostic Tools for Malaria Elimination
Diagnostic Tools for Malaria Elimination
UPCOMING TRAINING COURSE
2nd
Training on Essential Laboratory
Diagnostic Tools for Malaria Elimination
26 - 28 March, 2025
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Faculty of Tropical Medicine. Mahidol University. Bangkok. Thailand
Training Methods
Individual
Participant-
1-week Pre-Access to e-form training materials
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Live Discussion via ZOOM® application during Q&A session
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Access to this course for its duration + 14 days afterwards
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A digital Certificate of Achievement on the course
This training will be delivering on online platform basis of multimedia presentations including virtual laboratory and case demonstration. All participants and lecturers will be able to discuss on various topics in this online platform and Q&A chat box using ZOOM® application. Training materials and handout together with WHO malaria reference handbooks in e-form will be handed to all confirmed participants at least 1 week prior to training course start date.
Training will be conduct from Monday 19 – Friday 23 August 2024 between 12.00-15.00 hr. in Bangkok, Thailand local time (GMT+7) on www.malariatraining.org registered and fully paid participants should use their username and password provided after finished payment process to login to this training.
Individual
Participant-
3-days for training materials
Plese note that course registration fee is non-refundable
The training will be conducted from Wednesday 26 – Friday 28 March 2025 between 9.00-16.00 hrs. in Bangkok, Thailand local time (GMT+7) at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University.
Course Content
Key topics covered in the training:
1. Importance of Malaria Diagnostics in Elimination
o Tools for pre- and post-elimination phases.
2. Best Practices in Selecting Malaria Diagnostics
o Choosing reliable RDTs in a competitive market.
o When to use PfHRP2 or pLDH markers.
o Identifying blood samples with PfHRP2 deletion.
o Detecting very low parasitemia levels in blood smears.
o Molecular diagnostic approaches.
3. Microscopic Examination
o Criteria for a gold-standard reference microscopist.
o Steps to achieve expert-level microscopy.
4. Quality Assurance for Malaria Diagnosis
o Common errors and best practices for quality maintenance.
o Requirements for resource-limited settings.
5. G6PD Testing
o Point-of-care (POC) kits and fluorescence-based methods.
6. Pitfalls, Tips & Tricks for using diagnostic tools.
7. Interactive Q&A and Quiz Sessions
Previous Course
Virtual training on malaria vector surveillance: the guidance for
control and elimination, 1-3 march 2023
Faculty of Tropical Medicine
Online training
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