Malaria Surveillance System – Myanmar

[Aung Thura Htoo]

My oral presentation is about a proposed surveillance system aimed for Malaria outbreaks detection, considering the legal and ethical issues, and how the data will be transferred from one department to another, and how the data will be utilized and evaluated.

It is about 10 minutes and I hope you all can enjoy my presentation. I would love to hear your frank suggestions and thoughts on my surveillance system.

[Tanaphum Wichaita]

Your presentation is great. I like how you covered the legal about Myanmar Rules.I think you should add a section on reducing errors in System Quality. This would make the system more reliable, which is really important for detecting outbreaks. It would also help people trust the system more.

[Aung Thura Htoo]

Hello Tanaphum, yes, thank you for your suggestion. It would be a great idea to reduce errors in terms of system quality.

[Aye Thinzar Oo]

Hello Aung, I just posted the week 4 assignment, When I posted it, I saw your video presentation. It is a great presentation. I love it, I have to try like you. Thank you for your sharing.

[Aung Thura Htoo]

Hello Aye, I have just seen your presentation, it is a great presentation as well. You covered some areas that I have forgotten to consider like WHO framework in legal consideration.

[Cing Sian Dal]

Your presentation offered valuable insights and expanded my knowledge of malaria and its surveillance.
A question that doubts me is:
If a patient visits a healthcare facility (e.g., hospitals, clinics) for medical attention and the consent form doesn’t explicitly mention disease surveillance, can we still use the data collected from that facility for surveillance purposes?

[Aung Thura Htoo]

Hello Cing, I think Malaria is a notifiable disease in Myanmar, so I think the hospital can share the data without any identifiable variables with government related surveillance system. However, it will be very hard to do so in the current situation of Myanmar where all the state infrastructures and data flow is severely limited on both sides.

[Wannisa Wongkamchan]

Thank you for your malaria surveillance system presentation. I appreciate your focus on integrating passive, active, and sentinel surveillance, especially in hard-to-reach areas. Having statistical data on malaria prevalence in remote hilly and forest regions could help plan and select sentinel surveillance sites more effectively.

[Aung Thura Htoo]

Hello Wannisa, yes, having data from remote and hard-to-reach areas can uncover previously unknown insights that are valuable for the disease prevention.

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