News and Events
Mar 3rd, 2010
London, 3rd March 2010: Malaria Consortium is joining the Guardian for the third annual International Development Journalism Competition, which launched today.
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Feb 26th, 2010
London, 26 February 2010: The All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG) has published a new report which attempts to ‘take stock’ of progress on malaria control.
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Feb 22nd, 2010
Elements of a UN photo exhibition Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears were previewed in the ‘Week in Review’ section of the New York Times.
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Feb 11th, 2010
London, 11 February 2010: The Abu Dhabi Government announced this week that it has awarded a five-year grant of US$25 million to support the work of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM) to scale-up malaria control worldwide and contribute to achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
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Feb 4th, 2010
London, 4 January 2010: Yesterday evening saw the launch of Malaria Consortium’s 2008-9 Annual Review at a reception in Westminster.
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Feb 2nd, 2010
London 2 February 2010: African leaders met in Ethiopia yesterday to convene the first working session of the African leaders malaria Alliance (ALMA) to confront the ongoing challenges of meeting the United Nations target of ensuring universal access to malaria control measures across the continent by the end of this year.
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Jan 29th, 2010
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the world’s second biggest drug company, is to reveal previously confidential data on thousands of potential anti-malaria compounds.
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Jan 13th, 2010
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant will go towards improving the performance of community health workers to treat children with Diarrhoea, Pneumonia and Malaria in Africa.
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Dec 18th, 2009
William Daniels, a professional photographer who has covered the work of Malaria Consortium twice in Africa, has been awarded the 2009 Photo Philanthropy Excellence Prize
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Dec 15th, 2009
London, 15 December 2009: International funding for malaria has increased dramatically from US$35 million in 2000 to $652 million in 2007, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) released today.
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Dec 11th, 2009
London 11 December 2009: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are linked to the realisation of human rights, but they are also simply the right thing to aim for because we share a common sense of humanity and an interest in the elimination of poverty.
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Dec 10th, 2009
London 10 December 2009: Malaria Consortium welcomes the United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/64/L.28 2001-2010: A Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa.
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Dec 2nd, 2009
London 2 December 2009: Five celebrities - Ben Shephard, Chris Moyles, Fearne Cotton, Gary Barlow and Kimberley Walsh - are visiting Uganda to lend their direct support to the start of a mass mosquito-net distribution campaign to help save the lives of thousands of children in Western Uganda.
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Nov 26th, 2009
London, 26 November 2009: Malaria Consortium, in collaboration with the Vector Control Division (Ministry of Health, Uganda) and the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, has been awarded a grant of $45,000 by the Izumi Foundation to support the integrated control of malaria and helminths (intestinal worms and bilharzia) through Uganda’s health system.
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Nov 26th, 2009
London 26 November 2009: A new report launched by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG) highlights the tragic burden of some of the world’s most debilitating and neglected tropical diseases (NDTs) and calls for concerted action from the international community to help control and ultimately eliminate them.
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Nov 26th, 2009
Supporting small scale, community-led advocacy efforts is an extremely cost-effective way of raising local political awareness to ensure government commitment in the fight against malaria. This is the main conclusion of Malaria Consortium’s second Mobilising4Malaria (M4M) case study.
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Nov 20th, 2009
London, 20 November 2009: Despite increased investment in malaria control demonstrating dramatic success, with the latest artemisinin-based drug combinations proving highly efficient as both treatment and defence against resistance by the malaria parasite, there are new indications that resistance to artemisinin-based drugs, already confirmed in Thailand and Cambodia, is beginning to crop up elsewhere in the Southeast Asia region.
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Nov 19th, 2009
The first World Health Organisation Integrated Vector Management (IVM) stakeholders' meeting was held in Geneva this week, where participants developed a roadmap aimed at strengthening evidence-based decision-making for new initiatives in vector control.
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Nov 12th, 2009
London, 12 November 2009: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved 17 out of 31 malaria proposals, a total of $609 million over two years and up to $1.3 billion over five years.
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Nov 12th, 2009
London, 11 November 2009: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved a proposal to expand malaria control across all those at risk from the disease in Cameroon. Malaria Consortium’s partner and affiliate, the Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria (CCAM), will manage the advocacy component of the project.
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Nov 11th, 2009
While there have been considerable reductions in malaria deaths in endemic countries and the burden of malaria has been lifted for many, it is critical that the malaria community continues to look beyond 2010 towards what is still a large, unfinished agenda.
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Nov 6th, 2009
London, 6 November 2009: Malaria Consortium, the world’s leading non-profit organisation dedicated to the control and prevention of malaria, has been appointed to help implement a new USAID net distribution project worth up to $100 million across Africa.
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Nov 5th, 2009
Malaria Consortium joins 1,500 scientists, policymakers, health care workers, community members, and other experts at a conference in Nairobi this week to highlight new research on malaria.
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Nov 3rd, 2009
Nairobi, 3 November 2009: Many malaria-endemic countries realise the importance of home management of malaria in rural settings to reduce mortality in children. However, there are concerns about blood-safety and accuracy of diagnosis when community health workers use malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs). Malaria Consortium reveals research findings to show whether these concerns are justified.
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Nov 3rd, 2009
Nairobi 3 November 2009: There is urgent need for the malaria community to understand better the potential of various insecticide treated net (ITN) distribution strategies in Africa, given the shift of focus away from pregnant women and children to more sustained universal coverage.
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Nov 3rd, 2009
Malaria is an incredible burden on Africa; it is one of the biggest causes of mortality in children under the age of five. Pregnant women are also particularly vulnerable to the disease. Yet it is a disease that is both preventable and curable.
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Nov 2nd, 2009
Bangkok, 2 November 2009: Last week, the World Health Organisation Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO) convened a Regional Consultation on Integrated Approach to Malaria Control in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Malaria Consortium, which has offices in Thailand and Cambodia, attended the meeting.
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Oct 27th, 2009
London 27 October 2009: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) has signed an agreement representing its largest single malaria initiative with the Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria, providing resources for 30 million insecticide treated nets (ITNs).
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Oct 27th, 2009
London, 27 October 2009: Research undertaken by Malaria Consortium and published today in the high profile journal Public Library of Science Neglected Tropical Diseases, shows it is possible to survey major tropical diseases simultaneously, thereby effectively reducing the time and money required to identify and treat areas of greatest burden.
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Oct 14th, 2009
During September and October Malaria Consortium and attended the UK party conferences. In the run up to the next general election these conferences presented a key opportunity for the organisation to influence UK policy makers on international development, global health and malaria in particular.
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Oct 7th, 2009
London: Malaria Consortium, co-hosted with the Financial Times (FT), a highly successful breakfast briefing today, focusing on The Economics of Fighting Malaria. The event attracted participants from among the corporate sector, as well as representatives from business associations and interested individuals.
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Oct 5th, 2009
Even if 2010 net coverage targets are reached, will it be enough?
London: Malaria Consortium, the world’s leading NGO dedicated to the control of the disease, is concerned that while 2010 target for universal mosquito net coverage in Africa is extremely important, it has been oversimplified.
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Oct 2nd, 2009
Today Malaria Consortium is launching the "African Coalitions Against Malaria" case study.
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Sep 28th, 2009
SuNMaP, a £50 million DFID funded project led by Malaria Consortium in Nigeria, is highlighted on CNN International
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Sep 24th, 2009
African Leaders have launched a new high-level initiative to push ahead on the global commitment to protect all those at risk from malaria in Africa by the end of 2010, with the aim of ending unnecessary deaths from the disease by 2015.
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Aug 31st, 2009
A new UK-backed campaign, managed by Malaria Consortium, to rid Nigeria of malaria and distribute over 63 million lifesaving bednets launched its second phase in the north of the country today.
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Aug 23rd, 2009
Malaria Consortium was delighted to host a visit in August by Dr Margaret Chan, Director General of WHO, Dr Takada Yamada from the Gates Foundation and UN Special Envoy on malaria, Ray Chambers to its integrated malaria control project Busiro North, Uganda. The visit came as part of the delegation’s tour of Uganda’s progress on malaria prevention, control and treatment.
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Aug 19th, 2009
Malaria Consortium is in the process of handing out over 800,000 mosquito nets in Southern Sudan in order to save lives in one of the world’s most deprived regions.
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Aug 5th, 2009
Malaria Consortium selected to be the secretariat of the Roll Back Malaria Case Management Working Group in Geneva, responsible for addressing the key challenges of malaria case management globally.
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