Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARoB) Accelerated Malaria Control Project

From the desk of Ray Hughes-Odgers...

See attached a two pager on the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARoB) Accelerated Malaria Control Project (AMCP), for which my company, Shared Sky Pty Ltd, is Project Manager. I hold the AMCP Project Director role and we have a Bougainville based Project Manager. For clarification, the work of the ARoB AMCP is focused on initial malaria Control, which

is the essential prerequisite to a sustained commitment required to achieve Pre elimination and finally Elimination of malaria. In terms of action against diseases, elimination takes place in different parts of the world ahead of ultimate eradication. Eradication only applies on a global scale.  The only disease to have been eradicated globally is smallpox.

I am currently engaged with a major Australian university to investigate the viability of establishing a Trust Account with DGR status that could receive donations for the  entomological work on Bougainville that I have outlined in the attached two pager. DGR status provides tax deductibility for donations. This opens the potential for the ex BCL network to make individual donations.The entomological work on Bougainville (vector control, vector mapping, environmental measures and linked to GIS mapping of malaria incidence) is part of the work being undertaken by our Accelerated Malaria Control Project. Our work on Bougainville is conducted in collaboration with the Bougainville Healthy Communities Programme. We are also in dialogue with BCL about a potential contribution to toward the work of our Accelerated Malaria Control Project (AMCP) work.

Ray will be attending the picnic reunion and will be happy to speak about the Malaria Project in more detail then.