🔴 GenRe-Mekong

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.

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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 tools that turns rich information on the GRC datasheet into many types of genetic epidemiological maps.

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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24 November 2025

GenRe-Mekong Scientific Forum 2025

The Annual Scientific Forum united 45 scientific experts and partner from six NMCPs for sharing insights and strengthening collaborative efforts toward a sustainable, evidence-based malaria elimination programme.

Highlights included P. vivax genetic epidemiology and innovative tools to support malaria elimination.

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20 May 2025 New GenRe-Mekong Study in Nature Comms

This paper give updates to the changes in antimalarial drug resistance epidemiology in the GMS, based on an analysis of 5982 Pf dried blood spot samples collected by GenRe-Mekong from symptomatic patients in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam between 2017 and 2022, a period of time during which several NMCPs changed their malaria frontline treatment policies.

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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.

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💛 GenRe-Mekong is funded by