Last Updated: 17/12/2024

Blocking malaria transmission in forest vulnerable populations through forest malaria workers: a key for malaria elimination in Cambodia

Objectives

Year 1: To observe the characteristics of people working inside the forest environment and their malaria risk in the absence of any intervention. The data obtained from this first year is intended to be strictly observational and inform a choice of intervention for the following year.
Year 2: To select and implement an intervention to eliminate malaria.

The final outcomes of this study will be based on a comparison of the observation and intervention years, both within the forest and in neighboring health centers and village malaria workers.

Principal Institution

Institut Pasteur of Cambodia (IPC)

Principal Investigators / Focal Persons

Patrice Piola

Study Design

Study conducted inside a small forested area (approximately 500 km²) of North-East Cambodia, in Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri provinces, near the Kratie province border.
A group of forest-goers were trained to become forest malaria workers (FMWs). Each FMW was assigned to a specified area (“sector”) of the forest, where they were required to stay 5 days per week with the objective of enrolling any forest goers in the study.

Project Outputs