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Monitoring of the Village Malaria Workers to conduct activities of Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

BACKGROUND: The capacity of the field staff to conduct activities related to disease surveillance, case management, and vector control has been one of the key components for successfully achieving malaria elimination. India has committed to eliminate malaria by 2030, and it has placed significance o...

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Autores principales: Rajvanshi, Harsh, Bharti, Praveen K., Sharma, Ravendra K., Nisar, Sekh, Saha, Kalyan B., Jayswar, Himanshu, Mishra, Ashok K., Das, Aparup, Kaur, Harpreet, Lal, Altaf A.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8742915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34998397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-04040-2
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author Rajvanshi, Harsh
Bharti, Praveen K.
Sharma, Ravendra K.
Nisar, Sekh
Saha, Kalyan B.
Jayswar, Himanshu
Mishra, Ashok K.
Das, Aparup
Kaur, Harpreet
Lal, Altaf A.
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Bharti, Praveen K.
Sharma, Ravendra K.
Nisar, Sekh
Saha, Kalyan B.
Jayswar, Himanshu
Mishra, Ashok K.
Das, Aparup
Kaur, Harpreet
Lal, Altaf A.
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description BACKGROUND: The capacity of the field staff to conduct activities related to disease surveillance, case management, and vector control has been one of the key components for successfully achieving malaria elimination. India has committed to eliminate malaria by 2030, and it has placed significance on monitoring and evaluation at the district level as one of the key strategies in its national framework. To support and guide the country’s malaria elimination objectives, the Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project was conducted in the tribal district of Mandla, Madhya Pradesh. Robust monitoring of human resources received special attention to help the national programme formulate a strategy to plug the gaps in its supply chain and monitoring and evaluation systems. METHODS: A monitoring tool was developed to test the capabilities of field workers to conduct activities related to malaria elimination work. Between November 2018 to February 2021, twenty-five Malaria Field Coordinators (MFCs) of the project utilized this tool everyday during the supervisory visits for their respective Village Malaria Workers (VMWs). The data was analysed and the scores were tested for variations against different blocks, educational status, duration of monitoring, and post-training scores. RESULTS: During the study period, the VMWs were monitored a total of 8974 times using the monitoring tool. Each VMW was supervised an average of 1.8 times each month. The critical monitoring indicators scored well in all seven quarters of the study as monitored by the MFCs. Monitoring by MFCs remained stable at 97.3% in all quarters. Contrary to expectations, the study observed longer diagnosis to treatment initiation time in urban areas of the district. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated the significance of a robust monitoring tool as an instrument to determine the capacity of the field workers in conducting surveillance, case management, and vector control related work for the malaria elimination programme. Similar tools can be replicated not only for malaria elimination, but other public health interventions as well. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12936-021-04040-2.
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spelling pubmed-87429152022-01-10 Monitoring of the Village Malaria Workers to conduct activities of Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla, Madhya Pradesh Rajvanshi, Harsh Bharti, Praveen K. Sharma, Ravendra K. Nisar, Sekh Saha, Kalyan B. Jayswar, Himanshu Mishra, Ashok K. Das, Aparup Kaur, Harpreet Lal, Altaf A. Malar J Research BACKGROUND: The capacity of the field staff to conduct activities related to disease surveillance, case management, and vector control has been one of the key components for successfully achieving malaria elimination. India has committed to eliminate malaria by 2030, and it has placed significance on monitoring and evaluation at the district level as one of the key strategies in its national framework. To support and guide the country’s malaria elimination objectives, the Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project was conducted in the tribal district of Mandla, Madhya Pradesh. Robust monitoring of human resources received special attention to help the national programme formulate a strategy to plug the gaps in its supply chain and monitoring and evaluation systems. METHODS: A monitoring tool was developed to test the capabilities of field workers to conduct activities related to malaria elimination work. Between November 2018 to February 2021, twenty-five Malaria Field Coordinators (MFCs) of the project utilized this tool everyday during the supervisory visits for their respective Village Malaria Workers (VMWs). The data was analysed and the scores were tested for variations against different blocks, educational status, duration of monitoring, and post-training scores. RESULTS: During the study period, the VMWs were monitored a total of 8974 times using the monitoring tool. Each VMW was supervised an average of 1.8 times each month. The critical monitoring indicators scored well in all seven quarters of the study as monitored by the MFCs. Monitoring by MFCs remained stable at 97.3% in all quarters. Contrary to expectations, the study observed longer diagnosis to treatment initiation time in urban areas of the district. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated the significance of a robust monitoring tool as an instrument to determine the capacity of the field workers in conducting surveillance, case management, and vector control related work for the malaria elimination programme. Similar tools can be replicated not only for malaria elimination, but other public health interventions as well. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12936-021-04040-2. BioMed Central 2022-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8742915/ /pubmed/34998397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-04040-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Rajvanshi, Harsh
Bharti, Praveen K.
Sharma, Ravendra K.
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Saha, Kalyan B.
Jayswar, Himanshu
Mishra, Ashok K.
Das, Aparup
Kaur, Harpreet
Lal, Altaf A.
Monitoring of the Village Malaria Workers to conduct activities of Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
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title_short Monitoring of the Village Malaria Workers to conduct activities of Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
title_sort monitoring of the village malaria workers to conduct activities of malaria elimination demonstration project in mandla, madhya pradesh
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8742915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34998397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-04040-2
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