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You will write one eight to ten-page paper (double-spaced, 12-point font) analyzing themes in course materials and connection to outside materials.
I'll attach the abstract but i want a narrow focus on subject of topic. We're specifying looking at malaria in the course, in southeast Asia. Please refer to class readings and topics occisonal throughout.
Course Description
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In this course, we approach science, medicine, conservation, development, and statecraft in Southeast Asia as experiments in world-making. Case studies illuminate theoretical concepts, a country or region, inter-Asian and global connections, and a current topic in global health, environmental sciences, or development. Southeast Asia’s particular histories of colonization, decolonization, environmental change, and biomedical innovation make it a unique and important place to study experiments past, present, and future.
The case study on malaria drug resistance in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar considers political and geographic histories of borders and anthropological studies of drugs to understand the emergence of resistance and new global health experiments with village-based malaria elimination. The case study on conservation projects in Malaysia and Indonesia explores how species are known through science, and what it is to living together with nonhuman animals
The course provides the opportunity for students studying Khmer, Thai, Burmese, and Vietnamese to connect language learning with historical and contemporary issues in countries where those languages are majority. This could involve emphasizing the importance of local terms for concepts and conditions that do not translate smoothly into English. In coordination with language instructors, you may submit coursework in the language you are studying (or already know, by virtue of being a native speaker). These details need to be agreed upon me before the end of Week Two
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Running head: MALARIA DRUG RESISTANCE IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
Malaria Drug Resistance in South East Asia
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Malaria Drug Resistance in South East Asia
Resistance to the world’s best and most effective anti-malarial drugs is widespread across
mainland Southeast Asia, and this has severely threatened the global malaria control and
elimination initiatives. In the recent past, however, there had been a significant outbreak of
malaria in these tourists attractions site of Southeastern Asia. Malaria has always been neglected
even though research has shown a lot of susceptibility of the disease across those mentioned
above Southeast Asian countries. Importantly, scientists are concerned that the resistant parasite
can spread to another part of the world if not they will not be eliminated on time. Due to these
concerns, this paper examines the origin of anti-malarial drugs parasites and the strategies that
can be applied to eliminate the resistance.
Antimalarial drug resistance is not a new challenge. This is because during the periods of
the 1970s and 1980s, Plasmodium falciparum which is a species of parasite that is causing most
rapid and most common severe malarial infections was reported to have developed resistance to
the initially developed malaria medicines such as sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) and
chloroquine. As a result, Artemisinin-based combination therapies or ACTs, which was
introduced in the 1990s were the most efficient and effective medicine in the treatment of
malaria. Additionally, which is extracted from Artemisia annual (sweet wormwood plant) was
used together with other antimalarial drugs (Artemether-Quinine Meta-analysis Study Group,
2011).
However, artemisinin usually kills all the malarial parasites and the application of a
combination of several drugs as opposed to using one drug assist in ensuring that other drugs will
kill any parasite that remains before the resistant parasite is spread. However, in South East Asia,
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some malaria parasite developed resistance to artemisinin-based drugs. Primarily, resistance can
acknowledge when there is a significant delay in the time it takes for the malaria parasite to be
cleared for the infected individual since this shows a decline in the efficacy of the medicine.
Resistance to be first reported in Thailand along the Thailand-Cambodia border in 2008 and it
has continued spreading to another region. To date, it has been identified in four countries
Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Myanmar (Amato, Pearson, Almagro-Garcia, Amaratunga,
and Suon, 2018).
Specifically, a recent study in the Lancet infectious diseases established that the first line
resistance to malaria in Southeast Asia started merging several years before it was first identified
and it is linked to an aggressive strain which has spread across the area. According to the experts,
these findings raise important questions on the future efforts of global malaria control as noted
by Amato et al., (2018).
Furthermore, the discovery of a malaria strain which is resistant to artemisinin-based
combination therapy (ACT), which is the most recom...