Project 146: Evidence-based malaria interventions in a conflict zone in Northern Uganda

The St. Mary´s Hospital Lacor lies in the North of Uganda, about 4 km away from Gulu, close to the Sudanese-Ugandan border. During the riots over the past decades, it has been the only functioning and continuously accessible structure within the region. Attached to the hospital there are health stations in two refugee camps with 60,000 people each (Opit, Pado). On the basis of local experiences, it can be said that malaria is one of the main causes for diseases, especially for children, and that there are reasons to believe that the blood parasite Plasmodium falciparum has already developed a resistance against the currently practiced combination of therapies.
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Project 154: Capacities for research and diagnosis in the Bandarban Sadar Hospital in the South of Bangladesh

Due to its deep poverty, Bangladesh is one of those countries suffering most from malaria and contagious diseases. Despite recent success in malaria control, there was a clear increase in the number of cases of malaria in Bangladesh over the past years. Especially the spread of resistances towards medication and the consequent increase in the failure of therapies as well as actual deaths have become a growing problem. In order to counteract these developments, Bangladesh is in urgent need of new, cost-efficient intervention strategies, based on current research results from the fields of resistances and epidemology.
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