Malaria Elimination Realised through Community-focused Interventions (MERCI)

Project Title: Malaria Elimination Realised through Community-focused Interventions (MERCI)
Donor:
GF-RAI2E grant
Principal Recipient:
UNOPS
Implementing Sub-Recipient:
Health Poverty Action (HPA)_Vietnam (regional component)
Date:
01 December 2018 to 31 December 2020

Key Activities

• Vector Control (Distribution of LLIN to target communities). • Training of village volunteers (VMWs & MPVs), MMWs, Malaria Corners, MOTs for Integrated Community Case Management. • Consultation workshop to create MMs IEC/BCC materials and BCC Audiovisual strategies and activities implementation. • Conducting induction and planning workshop and annual planning and review meeting with program team and program partners in Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos. • Venue and service point mapping. • Linking, and analysis, and visualization of data from multiple sources through the Disease Surveillance and Risk Monitoring (DiSARM) platform. • Cross border collaboration activities. • Supervision and ongoing technical support by HPA and Provincial/District health Officers to VMWs, MMWs, MPs, MOTs.

CSV
Results from Jan-Dec 2023
Location Total Population Target Population Tested Number of suspected malaria cases received parasitological test Positive Case Number of malaria cases received antimalarial treatment
Binh Phuoc N/A 92,671 30627 5
Dak lak N/A 25,541 19617 11
Dak Nong N/A 30,535 16256 4
Gia Lai N/A 60,938 31249 62