359 Publications items related to 'Uganda'
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Antenatal care and the prevention of malaria related deaths in mothers and their unborn children
This film looks at an initiative in Uganda to protect pregnant mothers from malaria through routine distribution of nets via antenatal care centres. This involves the distribution of nets,…
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Assessing and addressing barriers to IPTp uptake in Uganda
These findings on the challenges to recording and reporting uptake of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy were presented to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected…
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Buying Time to Save Lives
A community response to severe malaria in children.Malaria Consortium's Pioneer project is training village health teams (VHTs) in Uganda, to use anti-malarials for treating patients with severe…
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Rapid Diagnostic Tests
Malaria Consortium's Pioneer Project, funded by the UK charity Comic Relief, is training health workers in Uganda to diagnose accurately and quickly malaria in patients using RDTs.
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Life for a Village Health Team Member
This film follows Christopher, a trained Village Health Team member, who explains how life in his community has changed since he was trained to diagnose and treat diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria in…
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iCCM: Saving Time Saves Lives
Malaria Consortium has been supporting the training of nearly 7,000 Village Health Team Members in nine districts of Uganda in integrated community case management. This approach integrates the…
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Pioneer: Fighting malaria on the ground
In 2009, Malaria Consortium received a special initiative grant from the UK charity Comic Relief to set up the Pioneer project in Uganda. 18 months after initial net distribution, Malaria Consortium…
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Village Health Teams - Saving Children's Lives in Uganda
The Malaria Consortium project behind this film - InSCALE - is a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded initiative that is looking at the critical need for community-based health volunteers in…
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ICCM in Uganda: background and process
Presentation by Dr Henry Katamba from the Uganda Ministry of Health.
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Pneumonia diagnostics: Searching for new tools for frontline health workers in resource-poor settings
This poster was presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town and discusses the formative research findings of the Pneumonia Diagnostics Project. The project aimed…
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Challenges to recording and reporting of uptake of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy at facility level in Uganda
This poster was presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town and discusses challenges to recording and reporting the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment in…
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Integrated community case management in practice: Lessons learnt from a participatory evaluation in three African countries
This poster was presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town and discusses various stakeholder perspectives on introducing large-scale integrated community case…
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Impact of an integrated community case management programme on uptake of appropriate diarrhoea and pneumonia treatments in Uganda: A propensity score matching and equity analysis study
This poster was presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town and assesses how integrated community case management as the first point of care improves equity and…
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Uganda - The devastating impact of childhood diseases
The Malaria Consortium project behind this film - InSCALE - is a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded initiative that is looking at the critical need for community-based health volunteers in…
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Pioneer project 2009–2014: A holistic systems strengthening approach towards malaria control in midwestern Uganda
Between 2009 and 2014, Malaria Consortium aimed to reduce the number of malaria cases and deaths in midwestern Uganda by supporting the Ministry of Health and national malaria programmes through the…
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inSCALE Mobile Technology - enhancing community health worker performance and motivation
In Uganda 154 children under the age of five die every day from diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria. The Ministry of Health is using volunteer community health workers, known locally as village health…
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inSCALE Village Health Clubs- local solutions for improved child health
In Uganda 154 children under the age of five die every day from diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria. The Ministry of Health is using volunteer community health workers, known locally as village health…
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Making community health workers part of the public health solution
"Children used to die a lot. All the time we were burying them," says Nakigude Ruth, a mother who lost her three year old son while trying to get to the health facility as quickly as possible. There…
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Improving access for under-fives to life saving treatment through integrated community case management for malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea
This is the final project report for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) grant to Malaria Consortium for the project “Improving access for under-fives to life saving treatment…
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The use of counting beads to improve the classification of fast breathing in low-resource settings: a multi-country review
This article presents findings on using counting beads and a timer to count a child's respiratory rate in order to improve classification of fast breathing.