Genetic Reconnaissance of Malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion

GenRe-Mekong is a genetic surveillance project, aiming to provide National Malaria Control Programmes (NMCPs) in the Greater Mekong Subregion and other public health stakeholders with timely and actionable knowledge to support their decision-making in activities relevant to malaria elimination efforts.

About this Site

GenRe-Mekong project supports control programmes and malaria research community through the sharing of data, tools and knowledge.

This site contains resources for all aspects of the GenRe-Mekong project, including open access genotyping data, technical resources for the grcMalaria R package, and guides to the Genetic Report Cards.

Data

We routinely release genotype data, referred to as Genetic Report Card (GRC), to our partner studies, and periodically release public access datasets.

Tools

We developed a tool that turns rich information on the GRC datasheet into many types of genetic epidemiological maps with a few simple lines of code.

Knowledge

We share knowledge and provide trainings to expand in-country expertise, developing local capacity to evaluate drug resistance data and other genetic epidemiological outputs.

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What we do

GenRe-Mekong is a genetic surveillance project conceived to provide public health experts in the Greater Mekong Subregion and neighboring countries with timely and actionable knowledge, to support their decision-making in malaria elimination efforts. In partnership with National Malaria Control Programmes (NMCPs) and regional research studies, GenRe-Mekong collects and analyzes small dried blood spots samples from patients with symptomatic malaria, and uses high-throughput technologies to extract large amounts of parasite genetic information from each sample. The results are captured in Genetic Report Cards, which consist of datasets and reports regularly delivered to NMCPs to keep them abreast of rapid epidemiological changes in the parasite population.

🎯 Learn more about our objectives and coordination ➔

🚀 Discover how we support malarial control and elimination ➔

🧩 Who we partner with ➔

👋🏾 Meet our Core Team ➔

💛 GenRe-Mekong is funded by

• The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria