WHO-certified External Competency Assessment for Malaria Microscope (ECAMM) in Viet Nam 2022 (09/12/2022)

In order to evaluate the skills of national microscopists in detecting and diagnosing malaria in blood samples using a microscope, the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative Office for Viet Nam organized the External Competency Assessment of Malaria Microscopists (ECAMM) course in Quy Nhon city from 05-09 September 2022.

'You get goosebumps from the data': hopes rise for new malaria vaccine (07/30/2022)

The disease is a leading killer of under fives across Africa. But trials for a new vaccine suggest an end to the death toll could be in sight.

IMPE-QN, Binh Dinh Department of Science and Technology and Binh Dinh Union of Science and Technology Associations promote technological and scientific cooperation in the province (03/11/2022)

The Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology Quy Nhon (IMPE-QN) has hosted a delegation from Binh Dinh Provincial Union of Science and Technology Associations (PUSTA) and Binh Dinh Provincial Department of Science and Technology (PDST) o­n 09^th March 2022. The visit was an initial step in the forthcoming plan for research cooperation in accordance with the provincial policy o­n promotion of science and technology proliferation in the period of 2020-2025.

MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry identification of mosquitoes collected in Vietnam (03/25/2022)

This study is the first to apply MALDI-TOF MS to the identification of field-caught mosquitoes in Vietnam, where the burden of disease transmitted by these vectors is high. It confirms that misidentification of mosquitoesby morphology can be prevented with MALDI-TOF MS, provided that the reference spectrum of that mosquito species is present in the MALDI-TOF MS database.

Remarks by WHO Viet Nam at the launching ceremony on propagating "World Malaria Day 25 April 2022" in Quy Nhon city (04/25/2022)

Attending the launching ceremony on propagating "World Malaria Day 25 April 2022" in Quy Nhon city, Dr. Mya Sapal Ngon - Medical Officer of WHO Representative's Office to Viet Nam spoke about the purpose and meaning of World Malaria Day o­n April 25 and believed that Viet Nam could contribute to the innovation to end malaria.

The collaborative mission between IMPE-QN and WHO investigates malaria situation in Gia Lai province (05/19/2022)

In order to have updates o­n malaria situation in the field and find out difficulties and challenges in malaria prevention and elimination, o­n May 17, 2022, a collaborative mission between the Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology Quy Nhon (IMPE-QN) and World Health Organization (WHO) Representative's Office to Viet Nam visited and worked at the Heath Center of Krong Pa district (HC-KP), Gia Lai province.

US Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU-2) visits to and exchanges research cooperation with IMPE-QN (08/16/2022)

On August 15^th 2022, a delegation of experts from the US Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU-2) visited and worked at the Institute of Malariology, Parasitology, and Entomology Quy Nhon (IMPE-QN). This was the 2^nd visit of NAMRU-2 delegation to IMPE-QN in 2022 with the purpose of exchanging, sharing information and seeking cooperation opportunities in the field of research and treatment of malaria as well as other infectious diseases.

Malaria migration breeds new cases in new places (04/04/2017)

Although malaria infections continue to fall, Myanmar and its neighbours remain a breeding ground for new and dangerous strains of the disease.

The Independent Monitoring Panel (IMP) of the RAI3E Programme visits and works at IMPE-QN (06/22/2022)

On June 15^th 2022, the Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology Quy Nhon (IMPE-QN) welcomed and worked with the Independent Monitoring Panel (IMP) of the RAI Regional Steering Committee (RSC) o­n assessing the quality and effectiveness of the RAI3E project.

IMPE Quy Nhon organizing the course-ending ceremony and awarding diplomas to the students Course 36 (2013-2015) (09/30/2015)

On September 30^th 2015, the Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology Quy Nhon (IMPE-QN) held the ceremony ending the course 36 and awarding the intermediate professional education diplomas to 75 full-time students of Medical Laboratory Technology, Course 36 (2013-2015).

New frontiers in vector control (04/12/2022)

Several new innovations aim to close gaps in anti-malaria efforts by targeting the mosquitoes that spread the disease.

Assessment of drug efficacy of dihydroartemisinine - piperaquine and chloroquine in treatment for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria respectively in Central highland region (06/05/2018)

The parasite resistance to antimalarial drugs in Central highland of Vietnam is an early warning to us that we are losing the most optimal weapons fighting the malaria. The dihydroartemisin plus piperaquine combination and chloroquin, which was listed into the essential antimalarial drugs since 2007 in Vietnam, has been used for 10 years until resistance appears in some Southern, Central of Western highland provinces. The study was conducted to evaluate the first-line drugs' efficacy in the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax patients in multicenters;

WHO guideline on control and elimination of human schistosomiasis (02/15/2022)

On 15 February 2022, WHO organized an virtual conference to officially issue Guidelines guideline o­n control and elimination of human schistosomiasis. This is the first WHO guidance o­n the evaluation of interruption of schistosomiasis transmission. This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations to support countries in morbidity control and elimination of the disease as a public health problem, and to move towards interruption of transmission.

Largest study of malaria gene function reveals many potential drug targets (07/24/2017)

Scientists discover that two thirds of the malaria parasite's genes are essential for normal growth, meaning there are many more possible drug targets than previously thought.

Part 4: Updated publications on evolutionary history of parasites (06/24/2019)

Paleoparasitology: the origin of human parasites; Parasitism, the diversity of life, and paleoparasitology; A retrospective examination of paleoparasitology and its establishment in the Journal of Parasitology; etc.

Updated research studies on malaria elimination in the world and Vietnam within the last 10 years (05/02/2019)

Diagnostic capacity, and predictive values of rapid diagnostic tests for accurate diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum in febrile children in Asante-Akim, Ghana; Mitochondrial gene sequence variants in children with severe malaria anaemia with or without lactic acidosis: a case control study; etc.

17th Congress of the IMPE-QN Communist Party Committee, the term 2015-2020 (05/19/2015)

The Party Congress of the Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology Quy Nhon (IMPE-QN) was held o­n 24 April 2015 with the attendances of comrade Nguyen Ba Tra, Secretary of Party Committee of Provincial Agencies Block (PAC); comrade Le Binh Thanh, Deputy Secretary of Party Committee of PAC; comrade Nguyen Huu Loc, Chairman of Party Inspection Committee; comrade Nguyen Van Minh, Head of Propaganda and Instruction Committee, and the Executive Committee of the Institute Communist Party Committee and all Party members of IMPE-QN.

15th Congress of the IMPE-QN Trade Union, the term 2017-2022 takes place with great success (08/23/2017)

The Trade Union Congress of the Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology Quy Nhon (IMPE-QN) was held o­n 17 September 2017 with the attendances of Assoc.Prof. Nguyen Van Chuong- Director of IMPE-QN, Dr. Tran Thi Bich Hang- Chairwoman of Vietnam National Union of Health Workers, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Minh Tam, Vice-Chairwoman of Binh Dinh Provincial Union of Health Workers, Mr. Vu Ba Toan, Deputy Director and Chairman of Quy Hoa National Leprosy Dermatology Hospital and 154 unionists of IMPE-QN.

The Institute Youth Union participates in the "Red Journey - Connecting Vietnamese bloodstream" in 2017 (08/07/2017)

Continuing the success of previous years, this year's 5^th Red Journey- Connecting Vietnamese bloodstream was held in July in 28 provinces and cities across the country, including Binh Dinh province, starting from 01 July in Cape Ca Mau and ending in Hanoi capital.

Latest Drug-resistant Malaria in Mekong Region May Skirt (11/26/2017)

Som Aun contracted malaria after moving to the Thma Baing district of Cambodia's Koh Kong province in 2002. Four years later, two of his children contracted the disease.

Africa: Study Links Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests to More Antibiotic Prescriptions and Finds Ignored Results (09/20/2017)

Scientists find curbing the overuse of antimalarial drugs often replaced by overuse of antibiotics instead; study also reveals puzzling cases of malaria patients testing positive yet going untreated.

Assessment of prescribe pattern of health staff and patient’s compliance to Primaquin therapy in plasmodium vivax malaria in some Central Highland provinces of Viet Nam 2016 (12/14/2017)

Primaquine, an 8-aminoquinoline drug capable of clearing the intra-hepatic schizonts, hypnozoites of Plasmodium vivax, and holds a unique and unreplaceable radical cure, but the non-compliance with 14 day-course primaquine regimen is a big problem now.

New malaria vaccine effective in clinical trial (02/23/2017)

Researchers have demonstrated in a clinical trial that a new vaccine for malaria has been up to 100 percent effective when assessed at 10 weeks after last dose of vaccine.

Artemisinins resistance molecular markers in falciparum malaria in some sentinel site of Central Highland Vietnam (12/06/2017)

Malaria is a vector-borne disease by far the world's most important tropical parasitic disease with high mortality and morbidity, especially in tropical Africa and South East Asia. The emergence of artemisinin resistance in Vietnam as big obstacle to reduce the malaria burden and elimination.

WHO's update on Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease), May 2016 (06/02/2016)

Dracunculiasis (commonly known as guinea-worm disease) is a crippling parasitic disease caused by Dracunculus medinensis- a long, thread-like worm. It is transmitted exclusively when people drink stagnant water contaminated with parasite-infected water fleas.

Dengue and spring diseases in the the first three months of the year (02/19/2019)

Health experts are advising people to take precautions to prevent epidemics and diseases that frequently occur in the first three months of the year during the humid weather and crowded festivals, said Tran Dac Phu, head of the Ministry of Health's Department of Preventive Medicine.