Woman holding baby

We specialise in the prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases

News & Blogs Publications Projects Research

20 years of impact: Saving lives, transforming communities

On our 20 year anniversary, we reflect on our journey so far — sharing what we have achieved alongside the partners and communities that we work with and how we seek to address the key challenges that remain.

Find out more

20 years of impact - photo shows girl howlding blister pack of medication/tablets

Malaria Consortium
Strategy 2021-2025

Read it here

Health is a human right 

where someone lives
shouldn't determine
how well or how long they live. 

Support community-led solutions that help ensure access to essential, lifesaving healthcare is a reality for everyone. 

Donate today

MicrosoftTeams-image (69)

DISEASES WE TACKLE

MALARIA NTDS DENGUE PNEUMONIA DIARRHOEA MALNUTRITION
  • Malaria is an infectious disease that, despite being preventable and treatable, threatens the lives of 3.2 billion people around the world. Since 2003, we have been working in partnership with communities, government and non-government organisations in Africa and Asia towards eliminating malaria, providing technical and operational support to strengthen health systems.

  • Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) primarily occur in rural and poor urban areas of low-income and middle-income countries. Some of the more well-known NTDs include trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, leprosy, schistosomiasis and dengue. We have been working on NTD control in a number of African countries since 2005, conducting situational analyses and reviewing possible interventions for NTD control in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique

  • Dengue is a tropical disease (caused by a virus with four separate serotypes) which is transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito. The vast majority of cases are found in the Asia Pacific region, but Aedes mosquitoes, which transmit dengue, have expanded into areas including Australia, the United States, southern Europe and Africa. We have been working in Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand, implementing these preventive strategies as well as using innovative vector control programmes to combat the rise of dengue fever.

  • Pneumonia — a preventable, treatable and curable disease — remains the leading infectious cause of death among children under five. Malaria Consortium has been at the forefront of pneumonia implementation research over the past 10 years. Our country offices are supporting ministries of health across Africa and Asia to develop national pneumonia action plans that will strengthen their health system’s pneumonia responses.

  • Diarrhoeal diseases are a leading killer of children under five, causing over half a million child deaths each year worldwide. They are caused by drinking or eating contaminated water or food or as a result of poor hygiene and sanitation practices. We incorporate building skills and support for community level health workers into our programmes to be able to recognise, diagnose, treat and refer children under five suffering diarrhoea and other common childhood illnesses.

  • It is estimated that over a third of child deaths are due directly or indirectly to undernutrition. We have pioneered work on iCCM, supporting the integrated treatment of common childhood illnesses including malnutrition at the community level. iCCM involves training voluntary CHWs to diagnose and treat under-fives for these illnesses and to refer cases of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and complicated illness to health facilities. 

Sign up for our newsletters here:

MALARIA CONSORTIUM IN NUMBERS

140000000 long lasting insecticide treated nets distributed over the last five years
25,000,000 children receiving potentially life-saving seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Sudan, Togo and Uganda in 2022
518432 rapid diagnostic tests for malaria (mRDTs) distributed through the project Support to the National Malaria Programme in Nigeria 2
16345 health workers mentored through the Malaria Action Programme for Districts project in Uganda
World map displaying global Malaria Consortium projects

SUPPORT US

Thanks to the money you donate, we are able to continue our work to help change lives around the world. Our mission is to find innovative, workable and sustainable ways to reduce the impact poor health and disease brings to those we aim to serve.

Thank you so much for your support.

Donate
A donation of £25 could pay for 30 malaria diagnostic kits for health workers