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Malakit: an innovative pilot project to self-diagnose and self-treat malaria
among illegal gold miners in the Guiana Shield
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Douine M
; Sanna A
; Galindo M
; Musset L
; Pommier de Santi V
; Marchesini P
; Magalhaes ED
; Suarez-Mutis M
; Hiwat H
; Nacher M
; Vreden S
; Garancher L
Malar J
2018[Apr]; 17
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): 158
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BACKGROUND: Illegal gold miners in French Guiana, a French overseas territory
('département') located in Amazonia, often carry malaria parasites (up to 46.8%).
While the Guiana Shield Region aims at malaria elimination, the high prevalence
of Plasmodium in this hard-to-reach population in conjunction with frequent
incorrect use of artemisinin-based anti-malarials could favour the emergence of
resistant parasites. Due to geographical and regulatory issues in French Guiana,
usual malaria control strategies cannot be implemented in this particular
context. Therefore, new strategies targeting this specific population in the
forest are required. METHODS: Numerous discussions among health institutions and
scientific partners from French Guiana, Brazil and Suriname have led to an
innovative project based on the distribution of kits for self-diagnosis and
self-treatment of Plasmodium infections. The kit-distribution will be implemented
at "resting sites", which are areas across the border of French Guiana regularly
frequented by gold miners. The main objective is to increase the appropriate use
and complete malaria treatment after a positive malaria diagnosis with a rapid
test, which will be evaluated with before-and-after cross-sectional studies.
Monitoring indicators will be collected from health mediators at the time of kit
distribution and during subsequent visits, and from illegal gold miners
themselves, through a smartphone application. The project funding is multisource,
including Ministries of Health of the three countries, WHO/PAHO, and the European
Union. RESULTS: This project will start in April 2018 as a 18 month pilot study
led by the Clinical Investigation Centre of Cayenne. Results should be available
at the end of 2019. DISCUSSION: This innovative approach may have several
limitations which should be taken into account, as potential side effects, kit
misuse or resale, declarative main criteria, or no Plasmodium vivax curative
treatment. Close monitoring is thus needed. CONCLUSIONS: This project may be the
best available solution to a specific and important public health challenge in
the Guiana Shield. If the use of self-diagnosis and self-treatment approach is
effective, this strategy could be sustained by health institutions in the region.