541 items related to 'Uganda'
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VOX Uganda: VHT Joseph talks about being a key health influencer
USAID's Malaria Action Program for Districts in Uganda aims to reduce childhood and maternal mortality and morbidity, particularly from malaria. Malaria Consortium is leading the implementation…
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VOX Uganda: a grandmother on protecting herself from malaria
USAID's Malaria Action Program for Districts in Uganda aims to reduce childhood and maternal mortality and morbidity, particularly from malaria. Malaria Consortium is leading the implementation…
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Improved management and prevention of malaria in pregnancy
Effective management of malaria in pregnancy (MiP) requires key antimalarial commodities to always be available at health facilities. To improve the management and prevention of MiP, USAID’s Malaria…
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Pharaoh's story: Community health workers promote change through village health clubs
Pharaoh, Bukinda village’s integrated community case management (iCCM) health worker, is working with members of his community to find solutions to common health issues through the establishment of…
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completedAnti-malaria activities
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Strengthening regional referral hospitals to provide evidenceâ€based technical support to district health services
USAID’s Malaria Action for Districts project has been working with the Ministry of Health in Uganda to strengthen the capacity of regional referral hospitals, improve the quality of their services…
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Kibuuba’s key influencer: Promoting change from within
Moses, a voluntary community health worker and key influencer from Uganda's Kibuuba village, is promoting essential malaria prevention and control behaviours. By working with local and district…
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Continuous long-lasting insecticidal net distribution through antenatal care facilities and primary schools
Combining antenatal care facilities and primary schools as channels for continuous long-lasting insecticidal net distribution (LLIN) can help maintain high LLIN coverage at the community level in…
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Improving mother and child survival through a community-led approach
This film explores the innovative aspects of the Comic Relief-funded iCCM MaCS project and makes the case for scaling it up, both across Uganda and to other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with…
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Integrated community case management in a peri-urban setting: A qualitative evaluation in Wakiso District, Uganda
Background Integrated community case management (iCCM) strategies aim to reach poor communities by providing timely access to treatment for malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea for children under 5…
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VOX Uganda: Village health worker on using drama to reduce malaria
Malaria Consortium worked with the National Malaria Control Programme to introduce 'sensitisation through drama' to communities in Mbale district, Eastern Uganda. This VOX Voices of Experience…
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VOX Uganda: Mbale DHO on boda boda malaria referral system
Malaria Consortium worked with the National Malaria Control Programme to introduce a motorcycle (boda boda) referral system to communities in Mbale district, Eastern Uganda. This VOX Voices of…
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VOX Uganda: Mbale District chairperson on VHT training and malaria
Malaria Consortium worked with the National Malaria Control Programme to train village health team members (VHTs) to sensitise communities about malaria in Mbale district, Eastern Uganda. This VOX…
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Malaria infection risk and use of insecticide treated nets in the context of insecticide resistance in Uganda
This poster was presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference 2017. It discusses the results of a study on the level of personal protection provided by insecticide…
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Resources: Annual review :
Trustees' report and financial statements for the year to 31 March 2017
Malaria Consortium's Trustees present their report and the audited financial statements for the year which ended 31 March 2017.
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Providing Ugandan community health workers with bicycles
Village health team members from 43 communities in Iyolwa, a sub-county in eastern Uganda, received brand new bicycles this month thanks to our recent fundraising campaign. Malaria Consortium…
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completedInnovation Platform for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH)
Improving maternal and child survival in Kibale and Hoima districts through strengthened community-health facility linkages and health service delivery
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Improving health worker performance through text messaging: Pilot intervention designed to increase coverage of IPTp
At Roll Back Malaria's fourth annual Social Behaviour Change Communication Working Group meeting, Malaria Consortium’s Christian Rassi presented lessons learnt from a successful pilot study designed…
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completedMalaria Action Program for Districts
Despite significant progress over the last decade, malaria remains persistently high in most areas of Uganda. The country still has one of the highest malaria burdens in Africa.USAID’s Malaria Action…
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Delivering nets at the last mile: Success through promoting a culture of net use
This success story discusses USAID’s Malaria Action Program for Districts, which distributed one million long lasting insecticidal nets to 1,978,114 people in three districts in Uganda in February…