Malar J. 2015 Dec 1;14:484. doi: 10.1186/s12936-015-0958-y.
The Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) is a collaboration of 18 country partners committed to eliminating malaria from within their borders. Over the past 5 years, APMEN has helped to build the knowledge, tools and in-country technical expertise required to attain this goal. At its inaugural meeting in Brisbane in 2009, Plasmodium vivax infections were identified across the region as a common threat to this ambitious programme; the APMEN Vivax Working Group was established to tackle specifically this issue. The Working Group developed a four-stage strategy to identify knowledge gaps, build regional consensus on shared priorities, generate evidence and change practice to optimize malaria elimination activities. This case study describes the issues faced and the solutions found in developing this robust strategic partnership between national programmes and research partners within the Working Group. The success of the approach adopted by the group may facilitate similar applications in other regions seeking to deploy evidence-based policy and practice.
亚太疟疾消除网络（APMEN）是由18个国家伙伴组成的合作组织，致力于在其境内消除疟疾。在过去5年里，APMEN帮助积累了实现这一目标所需的知识、工具和国内技术专长。在2009年于布里斯班举行的首届会议上，间日疟原虫感染被确定为该雄心勃勃计划在整个区域面临的一个共同威胁；为此成立了APMEN间日疟工作组来专门应对这一问题。该工作组制定了一个四阶段战略，以找出知识差距、就共同优先事项形成区域共识、提供证据并改变做法，从而优化疟疾消除活动。本案例研究描述了在工作组内国家项目与研究伙伴之间建立这种强有力的战略伙伴关系过程中所面临的问题及找到的解决办法。该小组所采用方法的成功可能会促进其他寻求采用循证政策和做法的区域进行类似应用。
