537 items related to 'Uganda'
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MAPD supports improvement of malaria diagnostics capacity, outcomes and leadership
USAID’s Malaria Action Program for Districts has built the technical and leadership capacity of Uganda to ensure accurate and appropriate malaria diagnostics...
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Sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine on essential drugs list for preventing malaria in pregnancy
USAID’s Malaria Action Program for Districts influences the Government of Uganda, via the Ministry of Health, to take important steps in improving provision of SP (sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine) – an…
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Awareness raising activities increase community engagement in malaria prevention
In Uganda – where the malaria burden is among the highest in the world – raising public awareness of the disease is helping to contribute to the prevention and treatment of malaria in communities...
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Malaria drops to no. 2 in terms of outpatient attendance in Masaka region, Uganda
All districts in Masaka region, central Uganda are, for the first time reporting that malaria has fallen to become the second highest contributor to its outpatient department health issues, rather…
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Malaria attains a spot on district agenda
USAID’s Malaria Action Program for Districts supported the Ministry of Health to organize a Grand Round meeting to sensitize district leaders on malaria control and highlight the need to allocate…
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Working with religious leaders to drive positive behavior change
USAID’s Malaria Action Program for Districts works together with religious leaders to develop sermon guides about malaria and health, so these influential leaders can drive positive malaria change…
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Mothers receive the right number of IPTp doses to prevent malaria in pregnancy
USAID’s Malaria Action Program for Districts in Uganda has been improving the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria by pregnant women visiting antenatal centers...
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Performance of five pulse oximeters to detect hypoxaemia as an indicator of severe illness in children under five by frontline health workers in low-resource settings
In this first trial in Cambodia, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Uganda, researchers wanted to identify the most user-friendly pulse oximeters for frontline health workers.
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New research shows handheld pulse oximeters are suitable tools for frontline health workers in detecting severe illness in children under five in resource-poor countries
Frontline health workers who tested five different pulse oximeters to detect blood oxygen saturation in children under five at district hospitals in low resource hospitals, found that handheld…
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Photo story: SMC beyond the Sahel: Protecting children from malaria in Uganda
Malaria Consortium is supporting Uganda’s National Malaria Control Division (NMCD) to implement a pilot project assessing the feasibility, acceptability and impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention…
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Mobilising the younger generation in disease response
An estimated nine-tenths of people aged between 10 and 24 worldwide are living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and 60 percent of the population in Africa is under the age of 25. However,…
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Evaluating the interrater agreement and acceptability of a new reference tool for assessing respiratory rate in children under five with cough and/or difficulty breathing
A new reference tool which facilitates manual annotation of breaths based on videos was developed to improve diagnosis of suspected cases and appropriate treatment.
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Evaluating the feasibility, acceptability and protective effectiveness of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Karamoja, Uganda
With our study, we aim to inform malaria decision-making, policy change and strengthen existing interventions to further reduce malaria morbidity and mortality.
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Impact of current malaria infection and previous malaria exposure on the clinical profiles and outcome of COVID-19 in a high malaria transmission setting
Our co-infection study found that low previous malaria exposure was associated with severe or critical COVID-19 and adverse outcomes in a high burden malaria setting.
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High exposure to malaria can modulate immune response to COVID-19 resulting in less severe outcomes, study shows
The results of ground-breaking research conducted by Malaria Consortium show that low previous malaria exposure is associated with more severe symptoms of COVID-19 and adverse outcomes compared with…
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Implementing mass campaigns during a pandemic: What we learnt from supporting seasonal malaria chemoprevention during COVID-19
Key learnings from supporting SMC implementation during the pandemic give invaluable insights that can inform future SMC implementation.
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Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention program: Philanthropy report 2020
Malaria Consortium’s annual report on the use of philanthropic funding for SMC.
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Malaria Consortium and COVID-19: Prioritising public health
We have lived with the reality of COVID-19 as a global pandemic for over 12 months and it has been a year of intense public health efforts. As Malaria Consortium remains committed to disease burden…
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Seasonal malaria chemoprevention and COVID-19: One year on
2020 was the most difficult year in living memory. Echoing the call of the World Health Organization (WHO), Malaria Consortium supported arguments for malaria programmes to be maintained as essential…
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One woman's impact in the fight against malaria
Twinomugisa is a primary school teacher in Hoima district. She and her family struggled for many years with an ongoing cycle of malaria infection that would prevent her from going to work and impact…