Laboratory Capacity Building in Asia for Infectious Disease Research: Experiences from the South East Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network (SEAICRN)

Heiman Wertheim and colleagues discuss a network that aims to improve infectious disease management through integrated, collaborative clinical research in South East Asia

STANDAR OPERASIONAL PROSEDUR (SOP) PENGUMPULAN DAN PENTASARUFAN ZAKAT UNIT PENGUMPUL ZAKAT (UPZ) UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA

Standar Operasional Prosedur (SOP) UPZ UIN Sunan Kalijaga Charity difungsikan sebagai panduan teknis pengumpulan dan pentasarupan ZIS di lingkungan UIN Sunan Kalijga di bawah Badan Amil Zakat Nasional (BAZNAS) Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. Besar harapan dan doa kami semoga dengan diterbitkan SOP UPZ UIN Sunan Kalijaga ini sivitas akademika UIN Sunan Kalijaga, masyarakat lingkungan kampus, dan masyarakat yang membutuhkan bantuan sosial akan dapat membantu meringankan beban bagi keluarga mahasiswa yang kurang mampu ekonomi dan bagi masyarakat yang sangat membutuhkan bantuan. Teriring doa semoga UIN Sunan Kalijaga semakin makmur sejahtera lahir batin dalam lindungan dan ridla Allah SW

PROFIL DAN PROGRAM UNIT PENGUMPUL ZAKAT (UPZ) UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA MASA BAKTI 2021-2023

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Community Willingness to Participate in a Dengue Study in Aceh Province, Indonesia

Background: Dengue virus infection is the most rapidly spreading vector-borne disease in the world. Essential research on dengue virus transmission and its prevention requires community participation. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the factors that are associated with the willingness of communities in high prevalence areas to participate in dengue research. The aim of this study was to explore factors associated with the willingness of healthy community members in Aceh province, Indonesia, to participate in dengue research that would require phlebotomy. Methodology/Principal Findings: A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out in nine regencies and municipalities of Aceh from November 2014 to March 2015. Interviews using a set of validated questionnaires were conducted to collect data on demography, history of dengue infection, socioeconomic status, and knowledge, attitude and practice regarding dengue fever. Two-step logistic regression and Spearman's rank correlation (rs) analysis were used to assess the influence of independent variables on dependent variables. Among 535 participants, less than 20% had a good willingness to participate in the dengue study. The factors associated with good willingness to participate were being female, working as a civil servant, private employee or entrepreneur, having a high socioeconomic status and good knowledge, attitude and practice regarding dengue. Good knowledge and attitude regarding dengue were positive independent predictors of willingness to participate (OR: 2.30 [95% CI: 1.36-3.90] and 3.73 [95% CI: 2.24-6.21], respectively). Conclusion/Significance: The willingness to participate in dengue research is very low among community members in Aceh, and the two most important associated factors are knowledge and attitude regarding dengue. To increase participation rate, efforts to improve the knowledge and attitude of community members regarding dengue fever and dengue-related research is required before such studies are launched

South East Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network sites and laboratories.

<p>South East Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network sites and laboratories.</p

List of approved protocols that will be or are being executed by SEAICRN.

<p>Study SEA002 is finished and already published <a href="http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000231#pmed.1000231-Wattanagoon1" target="_blank">[13]</a>.</p

Viral and atypical bacterial aetiologies of infection in hospitalised patients admitted with clinical suspicion of influenza in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia

Background Influenza constitutes a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. There is limited information about the aetiology of infection presenting clinically as influenza in hospitalised adults and children in South-East Asia. Such data are important for future management of respiratory infections. Objectives To describe the aetiology of infection presenting clinically as influenza in those hospitalised in South-East Asia. Methods Respiratory specimens archived from July 2008 to June 2009 from patients hospitalised with suspected influenza from Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam were tested for respiratory viruses and atypical bacteria by polymerase chain reaction. Results A total of 1222 patients' samples were tested. Of 1222, 776 patients (63.5%) were under the age of 5. Viruses detected included rhinoviruses in 229 of 1222 patients (18.7%), bocaviruses in 200 (16.4%), respiratory syncytial viruses in 144 (11.8%), parainfluenza viruses in 140 (11.5%; PIV1: 32; PIV2: 12; PIV3: 71; PIV4: 25), adenovirus in 102 (8.4%), influenza viruses in 93 (7.6%; influenza A: 77; influenza B: 16) and coronaviruses in 23 (1.8%; OC43: 14; E229: 9). Bacterial pathogens were Mycoplasma pneumoniae (n = 33, 2.7%), Chlamydophila psittaci (n = 2), C. pneumoniae (n = 1), Bordetella pertussis (n = 1) and Legionella pneumophila (n = 2). Overall, in-hospital case fatality rate was 29 of 1222 (2.4%). Conclusion Respiratory viruses were the most commonly detected pathogens in patients hospitalised with a clinical suspicion of influenza. Rhinovirus was the most frequently detected virus, and M. pneumoniae, the most common atypical bacterium. The low number of detected influenza viruses demonstrates a low benefit for empirical oseltamivir therapy, unless during an influenza outbrea

Activities by SEAICRN to achieve required laboratory capacity for their research projects.

<p>Activities by SEAICRN to achieve required laboratory capacity for their research projects.</p