Research Suggests Malaria Control Rethink Published: Feb 3, 2012
Around 1.2 million people died from malaria in 2010. This is still a significant 32% decline since the peak number of recorded deaths in 2004, however, these figures are almost double those reported in the 2011 World Malaria Report (655,000 malaria deaths in 2010).  A new report from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, published by the Lancet, has published these higher figures and suggests that the difference in the two estimates may be due to problems with capturing the numbers of malaria deaths in children over five and adults, which the report estimates account for 42% of malaria deaths.

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Strong Partnerships to Fight Neglected Tropical DiseasesPublished: Jan 31, 2012
London, 31st January 2012: Drug companies, politicians and experts have come together to tackle some of the world’s most neglected Tropical Diseases. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, pledging over £230 million, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the UK Department for International Development and all those involved are aiming to have beaten 10 diseases by 2020 either through elimination or control.

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NetWorks- Call for Letters of InterestPublished: Jan 23, 2012
NetWorks, a five-year USAID-funded global project focusing on distribution and use of LLINs, is led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHUCCP), with partners Malaria Consortium, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (SwissTPH), and Mennonite Economic and Development Associates (MEDA).

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inSCALE project’s first Technical Advisory Group meeting in KampalaPublished: Jan 5, 2012
London, 05 January 2012: Last December, inSCALE held its first technical advisory group meeting. The Malaria Consortium invited a group of nine experts from all over the world to Kampala, Uganda, to discuss progress of the inSCALE programme and the design of innovations that will help Community Health Workers in Uganda and Mozambique performing their daily work.  

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Listen to Saul Morris’s impressions on his recent visit to Uganda.Published: Dec 20, 2011
Uganda, 20 December 2011: Saul Morris, the Senior Programmes Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, expressed a strong interest during his most recent visit to Uganda in the evolution of Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) in the country. ICCM brings diagnosis and treatment of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea where most needed: at village level. Community Health Workers are trained to diagnose these diseases and provided with free drugs for all children under five.

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