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PRIMEX wins bid to improve disease surveillance systems of Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines |
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Posted on 12 May 2006 PRIMEX emerged not only as the winning but the only qualified contractor to implement the Asian Development Bank technical assistance on epidemiological surveillance for three Asian countries. The US$1.2 million ADB technical assistance (TA) grant will help Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines fight the spread of communicable and infectious diseases and to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). President and CEO Elvira C. Ablaza said the bidding result reflects the firm's remarkable reputation in the consulting sector. Prior to this, ADB awarded PRIMEX a contract to implement its emergency regional support to address the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (ADB RETA 6108). It later expanded to address the threats posed by Avian Influenza. Ablaza will serve as the Project Director of the said project, which runs for 18 months from June 2006. She is backed by a team of international and domestic consultants. ADB said the outbreaks of severe emerging infectious diseases such as SARS and more recently H5N1 avian influenza have focused attention on the weakness of epidemiological surveillance and response systems in developing countries and the heightened vulnerability of people living in Asia. This TA will strengthen the surveillance and preparedness systems of the three countries so that they can better detect and respond to these and other diseases. It will also help develop a comprehensive system for investigation, case management, and mitigation at local, national, and subregional levels; an improved information and communication mechanism; and supportive national policies for communicable disease control. "If communicable diseases are not controlled, progress toward reducing child and maternal mortality is unlikely," says Richard Ondrik, an ADB Senior Project Implementation Specialist, in a press statement. "Thus, if the MDGs are to be achieved, a major reduction in the high levels of communicable diseases in the three countries is required." |
