ArticleMalaria journal2023
From an interventional study to a national scale-up: lessons learned from the Malakit strategy at the French Guiana-Suriname border.
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- Seroprevalence, Associated Factors, and Molecular Detection ofJournal of tropical medicine · 2026Article
- Community-driven strategies for primary health care resilience in response to shocks in Latin America and the Caribbean: a scoping review and expert consultation.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Review
- Evaluating the impact of the Malakit intervention on malaria transmission in the Guiana Shield: a mathematical modelling study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
- CUREMA project: a further step towards malaria elimination among hard-to-reach and mobile populations.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- Core principles of Malakit intervention for transferability in other contexts.Malaria journal · 2024Review
- Community engagement in mobile and hard-to-reach populations: a community-based intervention for malaria elimination in a tri-national region of the Guiana Shield.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Malaria in areas under mining activity in the Amazon: A review.Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2024Review
- Training-of-trainers program for community health workers involved in an innovative and community-based intervention against malaria among goldminers in the Guiana shield: a quality and effectiveness evaluation.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Scaling-up an experimental intervention is always a challenge. On the border between French Guiana, Brazil and Suriname, an interventional study demonstrated the effectiveness of distributing self-diagnosis and self-treatment kits (Malakits) to control malaria in mobile and hard-to-reach populations. Its integration into the Suriname's National Malaria Elimination Plan after a 2-year experiment faced numerous challenges, including human resources to cope with the additional workload of coordinators and to maintain the motivation of community health workers. The economic recession in Suriname, the Covid pandemic, and logistical issues also hampered the scale-up. Finally, thanks to the commitment of stakeholders in Suriname and French Guiana, the integration of Malakit distribution into the Surinamese national programme was proved possible.
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