ARIDA – Malaria Consortium Blog

Why improved diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia must remain a priority

11 November 202112 November 2021Approx reading time: 2 mins

When Malaria Consortium was established in 2003, our primary focus was on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malaria. Howe......read more

The world’s first dedicated global pneumonia event

7 February 202010 February 2020Approx reading time: 2 mins

‘It is overwhelmingly clear that, without a breakthrough on pneumonia, the 2030 goal of ending preventable child deaths will nev......read more

Counting breaths: an assessment of automated respiratory rate timers

22 November 20197 February 2020Approx reading time: 3 mins

Community health workers across the world currently use respiratory rate as a proxy sign for pneumonia. But this technique is far ......read more

At a glance: community health worker adherence to guidelines for pneumonia using the ChARM device

5 February 20197 February 2020Approx reading time: 1 min

The ARIDA ChARM acceptability sought to establish whether health extension workers (HEWs) in Ethiopia could correctly adhere to the integrated community case management (iCCM) algorithm for assessing and classifying under five children for fast breathing, as a symptom of pneumonia using the Children’s Respiration Monitor (ChARM) device, produced by Philips.

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.

Exciting times for new pneumonia diagnostic tools

17 November 201617 May 2017Approx reading time: 2 mins

This year’s ASTMH saw a number of key sessions and presentations that highlighted the exciting work being done to evaluate the p......read more