Following the latest review of childhood pneumonia research funding, a new letter published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine today calls on infectious disease research funders to increase the amount of funding they invest …
Malaria Consortium is drawing on its expertise in improving pneumonia case management to develop and operationalise pneumonia control strategies in Chad and Ethiopia. The project will support efforts to reduce the number of deaths…
On March 15, 2016, Malaria Consortium hosted a workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to disseminate the preliminary results of our multi-country pneumonia diagnostics research project. The research aims to identify the most accurate a…
Malaria Consortium hosted a dissemination workshop on our pneumonia diagnostics work in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, which seeks to identify the most accurate and user-friendly tools for diagnosing pneumonia symptoms in …
November 12th, New York, 2015 – On World Pneumonia Day, more than 50 innovators and 150 global health leaders assembled at the inaugural Pneumonia Innovations Summit to discuss the next wave of innovations with the po…
This week, Malaria Consortium is presenting at the 64th annual meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) in Philadelphia. Our symposiums and interactive presentations will cover a number of topics rang…
Rochom Wart is one of 65 village malaria workers (VMWs) in Cambodia, who has been trained to also detect the signs and symptoms of pneumonia in children under five years using special new diagnostic tools.
The new devices - pulse…
In early November, Malaria Consortium held a highly successful symposium on access to better diagnostic tools for pneumonia. Held at the annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) meeting in New Orleans, the …
London, 12 November 2014 - On this sixth annual World Pneumonia Day, Malaria Consortium and its partners are organising different events throughout the world to raise awareness on pneumonia, the biggest killer of children under th…
Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia Press Release
Pneumonia prevention and care available for every child is key to defeat world’s #1 infectious killer of childrenOn the sixth annual World Pneumonia Day, the Global…
Malaria Consortium was well represented at this week’s Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town, which ran from 30 September until 3 October 2014. The conference was attended by 1,700 researchers,…
Recently, Malaria Consortium hosted a series of meetings in Geneva, bringing together global experts in child health, community case management, and diagnostics. During the meetings, the experts discussed the current global situat…
Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children worldwide. Every year it kills an estimated 1.2 million young children, accounting for approximately 18 percent of all deaths in this age group – more than AIDS, malaria an…
Malaria Consortium is hosting a series of meetings in Geneva this week, bringing together global experts in child health, community case management and health technology with diagnostics device developers. The organisation hopes t…
Malaria Consortium announces a new multi-country programme to improve diagnosis of pneumonia in four countries in Africa and Southeast Asia. The programme aims to reduce child mortality by identifying the most accurate and user-fr…