MOCRU Myanmar (MORU network)

MOCRU has a strong link with Medical Action Myanmar (MAM), a non-governmental organisation with a well-established infrastructure of 10 clinics and 2,000 village health workers spread across the poorest rural areas, which are a valuable resource for future research. The MOCRU admin staff and academic leadership share an office and logistical base in Yangon with MAM.

MOCRU’s current, ongoing research projects are:

• Determining predictors of mortality and loss to- follow-up in HIV clinics in Myanmar
• A multi-centre observational study to describe the prevalence of scrub typhus defined as a positive rapid diagnostic test among selected patients presenting with fever to clinics in Myanmar
• Environmental sampling and mapping of the geographic distribution of Burkholderia pseudomallei, the cause of melioidosis, in Myanmar
• Cross-sectional study investigating the causes of pneumonia in two community clinics in two Yangon townships, Myanmar
• Public engagement activities: Form theatre as a tool for public engagement on Fever and Antibiotic use in Myanmar
• Studies of malaria treatment combinations (just finished TRAC II, preparing for DeTACT)
• Determining the factors associated with severe rickets in Nagaland, Northern Myanmar.
• Determining the aetiology of fever and improved ways to manage fever in resource poor settings and in remote communities.
• Malaria elimination strategies in hard to reach areas investigating a variety of community based strategies