359 Publications items related to 'Uganda'
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Assessing and addressing barriers to the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy in Uganda
This project studied demand and supply side barriers to the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp). Based on the findings of the formative research, an intervention was…
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Managing acute febrile illness in the community
This poster is one of a series of presentations for the 62nd ASTMH Annual Meeting. It compares the diagnoses and treatments prescribed to sick children under five years in three settings – Midwest…
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Distribution, delivery and allocation strategies for mass campaigns to achieve universal coverage with insecticide treated nets
This poster is one of a series of presentations for the 62nd ASTMH Annual Meeting. It presents results from 14 post campaign household surveys conducted in Nigeria, Ghana, South Sudan, Senegal and…
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Insecticide treated nets: the role of the commercial sector
This learning paper takes a detailed look at the approaches of direct support to the commercial insecticide treated net (ITN) market that were implemented by Malaria Consortium and its partners as…
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Uganda: ICCM Central
This project in Uganda's Central region aims to reduce under five child mortality and improve maternal and newborn health through the provision of integrated community case management.
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NetWorks Project
NetWorks aims to support countries in the development of efficient, comprehensive and sustainable programmes to ensure high ownership and use of long lasting insecticidal nets and other malaria…
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inSCALE - Community engagement approaches to improve motivation and performance of CHWs in Uganda
The inSCALE project, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is working to increase coverage of integrated community case management (ICCM) and expand the number of VHTs trained to…
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inSCALE Project Brief
This is a project brief on the inSCALE Project and its aim to increase coverage of integrated community case management, which provides community-based care for diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria.
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inSCALE: Mobile health (mHealth) approaches to improve motivation and performance of CHWs in Mozambique and Uganda
This is a technical brief on the use of mobile health technology in Mozambique and Uganda through Malaria Consortium's inSCALE Project.
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inSCALE: Mobile health (mHealth) approaches to improve motivation and performance of CHWs in Uganda
This is a technical brief on the inSCALE Project's use of mobile health technology to improve Community Health Worker motivation and performance in Uganda.
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Comparing iCCM in Rural and Peri-Urban Villages in Uganda
This is a project brief outlining aims to inform decision making on whether or not the integrated community case management (iCCM) strategy should be tailored differently in rural and peri-urban…
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Community dialogues for healthy children: encouraging communities to talk
Integrated community case management (ICCM) – an approach where community-based health workers are trained to identify, treat and refer children under-five with pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria – is…
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Successful roll out of RDTs in Uganda
This brief is based on Malaria Consortium’s lessons learned over three years of implementation and research on scaling up the use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests at community and health facility…
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Case Management of Severe Malaria - A Forgotten Practice: Experiences from Health Facilities in Uganda
Severe malaria is a life-threatening medical emergency and requires prompt and effective treatment to prevent death. However, effective management of severe malaria is relatively expensive and relies…
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Can lay community health workers be trained to use diagnostics to distinguish and treat malaria and pneumonia in children? Lessons from rural Uganda
This study sought to determine the competence of community health workers in Uganda to correctly assess, classify and treat malaria and pneumonia among under-five children after training.
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Use of RDTs to improve malaria diagnosis and fever case management at primary healthcare facilities in Uganda
This study evaluated the effect of malaria rapid diagnostic tests on health workers' antimalarial drug prescriptions among outpatients at low-level health care facilities within different malaria…
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The impact of mass drug administration and long-lasting insecticidal net distribution on Wuchereria bancrofti infection in humans and mosquitoes: An observational study in Northern Uganda
This study aimed to investigate whether large-scale distribution of long-lasting insecticidal nets could contribute towards the mass drug administration-based transmission control of lymphatic…
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Plasmodium–helminth coinfection and its sources of heterogeneity across East Africa
Abstract Plasmodium–helminth coinfection can have a number of consequences for infected hosts, yet our knowledge of the epidemiology of coinfection across multiple settings is limited. This study…
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Placental Plasmodium falciparum malaria infection: Operational accuracy of HRP2 rapid diagnostic tests in a malaria endemic setting
Abstract Malaria has a negative effect on the outcome of pregnancy. Pregnant women are at high risk of severe malaria and severe haemolytic anaemia, which contribute over 60-70 percent of foetal and…
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Mortality after fluid bolus in African children with severe infection
Abstract The role of fluid resuscitation in the treatment of children with shock and life threatening infections who live in resource-limited settings is not established. Thus, the study randomly…