Asia – Malaria Consortium Blog

In conversation with Janice Apilado, Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance Secretariat (APLMA) / Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN)

3 July 2020Approx reading time: 2 mins

In the first of our In Conversation with series, we spoke to Janice Apilado, Communications Manager at APLMA/APMEN. The series aim......read more

A new online portal for vector biologists

17 December 201917 December 2019Approx reading time: 4 mins

Dr Paul Russell, a malaria specialist who served in the Second World War, once said: "Man ploughs the sea like a leviathan, he soa......read more

Training entomologists to tackle malaria in Asia Pacific

17 December 201917 December 2019Approx reading time: 2 mins

The Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network, in partnership with Kasetsart University, ran the 2nd International Training Course ......read more

We must wake up to the dengue threat – and the other diseases lining up behind

19 June 201919 June 2019Approx reading time: 3 mins

Sweat glistens on the skin of the 24-year-old Jeanine. Here and there it coalesces into tiny rivulets that trickle and drip onto t......read more

It’s time for a World Dengue Day. Here’s why.

14 June 201919 June 2019Approx reading time: 2 mins

At 390 million cases per year, dengue is the world’s fastest-growing disease. This has rocketed from only 15,000 cases in 1960. ......read more

World Health Day 2019: Prioritising the most vulnerable communities to achieve health for all

7 April 20197 April 2019Approx reading time: 2 mins

Contemplating how the world achieves universal health coverage (UHC) is a mammoth task. The ambition is to ensure 'health for all'......read more

Bright spots of progress in women’s health, but much work to do

8 March 20197 February 2020Approx reading time: 2 mins

As the world marks International Women’s Day, the progress that has been made since the day was first officially adopted in 1975......read more

Tackling antibiotic resistance – why it matters and how community dialogue can help

11 January 20195 April 2019Approx reading time: 3 mins

Malaria Consortium was honoured to be chosen by the Wellcome Trust as one of two “Pioneers” identified through a competitive open call to showcase our work on Community Dialogue to address antibiotic resistance in Bangladesh. The project addresses what the general public can do to minimise the spread of antibiotic resistance.

From the field: female community health volunteers in Nepal

8 June 20185 April 2019Approx reading time: 2 mins

As part of its Acute Respiratory Infection Diagnosis Aid (ARIDA) project/study, Malaria Consortium (MC) went on a scoping mission to Nepal end of January and visited a Female Health Community Volunteer in a valley outside Kathmandu.

Recognising community health workers this World Health Day and World Health Worker Week

6 April 20175 April 2019Approx reading time: 3 mins

To mark the fourth annual World Health Worker Week as well as World Health Day on Friday 7, this article reflects on global health......read more