At the key time that the Global Fund Regional Artemisinin Resistance Initiative (RAI) is entering its second year of implementation, the 5th meeting of the Regional Steering Committee (RSC) was convened in Lao PDR on April 9th of 2015. The participants were from WHO, WPRO, Global Fund, Bill-Melinda gates foundations, GMS countries, NGOs and donors...
Disease Control
2015-04-22
On behalf of the Disease Control Bureau, National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of China, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases organized experts to discuss and revise the new ten-year planning for schistosomiasis control, namely “Elimination Action for Schistosomiasis 2016-2025”, in Wuxi, Jiangsu province on...
2015-04-20
National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) organized the National malaria elimination training workshop, to understand World Health Organization (WHO) certificate procedure, review the malaria elimination progress and summarize the current obstacles as well as challenges of malaria elimination in all provinces, to make sure of the...
2015-04-07
The launching ceremony for the China UK Global Health Supported Programme (GHSP) –Output 4 titled as China-UK-Tanzania Pilot Project of Malaria Control: Application of Community-Based and Integraded Strategy was held in the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the United Republic of Tanzania on Apr 2, 2015. The MOU was signed by Prof Xiao Ning,...
2015-03-17
Erjina, a county of Inner Mongolia, is an endemic area of kala-azar. The current status of control and prevention of this disease has been kept unknown. During the period of 22nd to 25th , October, 2014, NIPD experts visited some of the villages in ErJina, and had a look at the local environment, and communicated with the local doctors to know the...
2015-03-17
To improve the control and prevention of echinococcosis, the working ability and manage skills of the health workers, NHFPC held a training course for echinococcosis control and program management on Aug. 2014 in Chengdu. The staff of NIPD actively participated in. The progress of the national program, current features of echinococcosis, its...
2015-03-17
To further improve the achievement of schistosomiasis control and guide the future implementation, the meeting on the compilation of retrospective investigation on schistosomiasis was held from 14 to 16 January, 2015 in Heqing, Yunnan. A total of 30 participants attended the meeting, including delegates from the Chinese Center for Disease Control...
2015-03-17
To understand quality on immunological diagnostic reagents of schistosomiasis in China and provide evidence for the selection of population screening tools, the parasitic diseases team under the disease control board led by the National Health and Family Planning Committee, the assessment on schistosomiasis immunological diagnostic reagents was...
2015-03-17
Since the first imported case of Africa trypanosomiasis in China was found in September, 2014, under the leadership of the National Health and Family Planning Commission and National institute of parasitic diseases control and prevention (NIPD), China CDC, actively participated in the review, case detection, treatment guidelines and expand...
2015-03-17
On December 12th, 2104, more than 60 teachers and students from QIXIU Experimental Middle School visited the parasite museum of NIPD, China CDC. Staff from the NIPD introduced the morphology, transmission routes, and hazards of important parasites such as hookworm, whipworm, pinworm and roundworm, etc. Students also learned how to prevent from...