The Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, as the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre (WHOCC) for Case Management, Training, and Research on Malaria and the BIMSTEC Centre of Excellence on Tropical Medicine, in collaboration with the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (WHO SEARO), the Department of International Economic Affairs, and the Thailand International Cooperation Agency (TICA), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the Thailand-Africa Initiative (TAI), organized the 3rd Virtual Training on Essential Laboratory Diagnostic Tools for Malaria Elimination from 28–30 September 2026 via an online platform.
          The training aims to provide the participants about malaria diagnosis and management, laboratory diagnosis for malaria control and elimination as well as sharing experiences among respective countries. There were 20 distinguished physicians, scientists, lab technicians and health experts from 8 respective countries attended the training virtually including Mozambique, Sudan, Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Myanmar, Bhutan, and Thailand.