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Developing Instructional and Design Skills for National Training
Developing Instructional and Design Skills for National Training in: Giemsa Malaria Microscopy, Quality Assurance and Slide Bank Operations is proposed to hold a Course to develop a nucleus of workers competent to establish national training in Basic Giemsa Malaria Microscopy (BGMM), Quality Assurance (QA) and Slide Bank Operations.

International Course on Management of Malaria Field Operations
The curriculum is performance-based training, using current educational approach such as problem-based learning and inquiryled that allows participants to develop critical thinking and lifelong learning skills.

Transfer of Training Technology Course
The course is designed to address problems due to lack of necessary skills among health workers in malaria control in the Southeast Asian region.

Regional Training on Pharmaceutical Management
To provide participants with the necessary knowledge, skills and tools to carry out quantification of antimalarial medicines and RDTs

National Training Course on PHARMACEUTICAL MANAGEMENT FOR MALARIA
This workshop will target individuals involved in the pharmaceutical management of malaria, particularly those responsible for strategic planning in the National Malaria Control Program as well as those responsible for the process of procurement and estimating needs of antimalarials and related commodities.

Worshop on Malaria Surveillance and Epidemic Management
This workshop will review the existing surveillance systems and indicators used as well as the capacities of the different programmes in responding to epidemics.

Training and Assessment of Malaria Microscopy
WPRO and SEARO, has collaborated with ACTMalaria in planning to establish a bi-regional network to support quality assurance for malaria microscopy.

Malaria Operations Research Training (MORT) Workshop
The course aims to equip the participants with the basic skills to undertake operations research in the malaria control programs of WHO-WPRO countries.

Drug Policy Development
This workshop will review the most recent developments related to the countries drug policy implementation, discuss areas for improvement and potential for standardization of treatment guidelines especially along country borders.

Broadening Involvement Team Training Workshop (BITTW)
This workshop aims to develop broadening involvement team in malaria control program in each member countries through the knowledge and skill in carrying out several activities such as team building, communication skills, critical thinking, problem solving and various activities related to qualitative research.

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The Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN)
As the first major effort of its kind, the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) was established in 2009 to bring attention and support to the under-appreciated and little-known work of malaria elimination in Asia Pacific, with a particular focus on Plasmodium vivax.

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