SMRU was established in 1986 in Shoklo. It is a field station of the faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, and is part of the Mahidol-Oxford Research Unit (MORU) supported by the Wellcome Trust (UK)... Location: The S.M.R.U base is in Mae Sot and the activities extend to the populations living along the Thai-Myanmar border... Beneficiaries: Population living along the border, including refugees and other migrants... Objectives: 1. To treat and care for patients with malaria.... 2. To define the epidemiology, entomology, and clinical features of malaria in this area of low (unstable) transmission, and to determine the best methods of prevention and treatment... 3. To advise the Thai Medical Institutions and the Non Governmental Organisations involved in the treatment and the control of malaria in the South East Asia region. Project Objectives: The projects are designed to be of direct benefit to the local community, and also to provide information useful to other populations living in malaria endemic areas elsewhere in the world through publications in mainstream international scientific journals... Project Areas: 1. Malaria in Pregnancy and Infancy; 2. Malaria treatment studies; 3. Entomology; 4. HIV/Aids awareness and prevention of vertical transmission; 5. Nutrition and Anaemia; 6. Laboratory studies; 7. Control of malaria and detection of epidemics along the border..." ...Very useful site with news, abstracts of publications -- not full text, unfortunately)-- Substantial "Laboratory Manual for Laboratory Technician Training" and other training documents in Burmese and English..."