Last Updated: 19/12/2024
Indo-Pacific Initiative (IPI)
Objectives
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is core funding IVCC with a specific aim to develop a vector control toolbox to prevent malaria and other vector borne diseases in the Indo-Pacific region.
The objectives of this grant are as follows:
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Novel vector control products adapted to the Indo-Pacific region
- Candidates screened for quick to market, high impact potential. This screening will focus on IVCC’s portfolio and pipeline as well as other potential vector control solutions.
- Development plans to adapt to local user preference, environmental conditions and vector populations
- Ensure product access through the development of launch plans with industrial partners and implementers
- Development of global access plans (GAPs) including market analysis and regulatory pathways for new vector control products
- Market shaping intervention building upon proven strategies (i.e. NgenIRS)
In 2018 IVCC was awarded a five-year $18.75 million grant by Australia Aid to create a toolbox of vector control products to address malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases in the Indo-Pacific Region. In 2024, the Australian Government awarded IVCC a five-year, 17 million Australian dollar grant to advance the control of malaria in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and other Indo-Pacific countries. The workstreams developed under the new grant will support capacity-strengthening for the evaluation and adoption of new vector control tools in PNG and the further evaluation and uptake of spatial emanators in the Greater Mekong Subregion. As a new area of focus, IVCC will also support improving the tools and approaches available for the control on Aedes-borne diseases in the region, including dengue and chikungunya.
Jun 2018 — Jan 2029
$25.26M
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