Last Updated: 09/09/2025
Artemisinin Resistant Malaria Research Programme
Objectives
The main goal of this porgramme is to provide information and tools to slow or halt the spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria. The Tracking Resistance to Artemisinin Collaboration (TRAC) project has three main components: clinical research, assessment of demand factors and new approaches to vector control. The objectives of these three components are:
- Clinical Studies: to map the current extent and severity of artemisinin resistance ;
- Demand Factors: To understand how demand factors may influence the emergence and spread of artemisinin resistance; and
- Vector Control: to evaluate new approaches to vector control which might be suitable for scaling-up in target populations in Southeast Asia.
The emergence of artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in South-East Asia poses the single greatest threat to current efforts to control and eliminate malaria. The Tracking Resistance to Artemisinin Collaboration (TRAC), funded by the UK Department for International Development, was set up in January 2011 and involves multiple institutions worldwide and is coordinated by the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme based in Bangkok (part of the University of Oxford).
May 2011 — Mar 2018
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