Malaria Research and Surveillance in Vietnam
TO21F-0167, Malaria Research, and Surveillance in Vietnam, 3 June 2021 to 3 December 2022
In June 2022, Naval Medical Logistics Command (NMLC) issued a no-cost extension for an existing Task Order under the SABER II program. This Task Order aims to combat the spread of drug-resistant Malaria in and from Vietnam by monitoring the effectiveness of current malaria treatment therapies, testing drug susceptibility of Malaria parasites, and developing new malaria treatment modalities.
About Naval Medical Logistics Command
Naval Medical Logistics Command’s (NMLC) mission is to deliver patient-centered logistics solutions for military medicine. In 1850, the U.S. Navy established the Naval Medical Supply Depot in Brooklyn, NY with Medical Department Officers serving as Medical Materiel Managers. In 1905, the U.S. Naval Medical Supply Depot was established. Between 1905 and 1941, the expansion of the Navy and the preparation for war came with the need for additional education and training of Medical Supply Officers. In 1941, a Medical Supply Management Training program was established at the “U.S. Medical Supply Depot” for the Hospital Corps Warrant Officers who performed the Medical Supply functions during World War II. Organizational changes within the Navy and the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery led to the disestablishment of the “Field Branch” and the establishment of the Naval Medical Materiel Support Command as a Navy shore activity December 1973 under a Medical Service Corps Commanding Officer in Philadelphia, PA. The Army and Air Force counterparts, the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency and the Air Force Medical Logistics Office, relocated to Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD in 1974. June 1990, the name of the Command changed to the Naval Medical Logistics Command to reflect its current mission. NMLC provides support to Navy Medicine in the forms of technical and procurement support for the acquisition of equipment, supplies and services. The Command also supports the Navy’s fleet and operational forces. Engineering support for medical and dental space configuration for new ships’ construction; lifecycle replacement of shipboard medical equipment; participation in a working group to achieve cost efficiencies through advanced acquisition planning for shipboard medical assemblages; developing adaptive force packages that will allow leveraging of all afloat platforms in support of Theater Hospitalization, Disaster Relief, and Humanitarian Civil Assistance; and an initiative to develop a clinically-based assemblage computation method are among the cutting edge services provided in support of the fleet and operational forces. The Command has formal agreements with the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard to provide medical logistics and materiel management information and medical mobilization planning assistance and has the responsibility as technical manager of the Navy’s direct healthcare services contracting program
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