Up to 21 students from the member countries will attend. Each site is an area of endemic malaria where students will practice the planning of malaria control operations while carrying out practical entomology, parasitology, and epidemiology. Teaching staff from the Yunnan Institute of Malaria Control, the Thai Malaria Division, and the local Epidemic Prevention Station will guide the students. Mengla County is one of the southernmost parts of China, bordering on Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Agricultural cultivation of rubber, tea, rice, and sugarcane is extensive in the county.
Malaria is a persistent problem, although incidence has been reduced in recent years.
Students will study in Thailand for about six weeks prior to the field practice in Yunnan. They will also work at the Yunnan Institute of Malaria Control, in Simao, to complete their project reports. For information or a brochure, contact the ACTMalaria Secretariat. The next meeting of the ACTMalaria Directors will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, starting 23 June 1997. The site will be the conference room of the Thai Malaria Division.