537 items related to 'Uganda'
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Resources: Learning paper :
Evaluating pneumonia diagnostic aids
Malaria Consortium’s pneumonia diagnostics project aimed to identify the most accurate, acceptable, scalable and user-friendly respiratory rate timers and pulse oximeters to help community health…
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Resources: Journal article :
Assessing demand-side barriers to uptake of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy: A qualitative study in two regions of Uganda
Background To prevent malaria infection during pregnancy in endemic areas in Africa, the World Health Organization recommends the administration of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy…
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Help us improve access to healthcare in eastern Uganda
[{dx-module-home_justgiving}] When your child is sick from a fever, vomiting or suffering from dehydration from constant diarrhoea, you need to seek urgent medical help. If you live in a rural area…
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Resources: Annual review :
Highlights from the trustees report and financial statements 2015–2016
During the first operating year of Malaria Consortium’s 2015–2019 strategy, we continued to deliver on our mission to improve lives in Africa and Asia through sustainable, evidence-based programmes…
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Resources: Annual review :
Trustees report and financial statements for the year to 31 March 2016
Take a look at Malaria Consortium's trustees report and financial statements for the year that ended 31 March 2016. Also read the highlights from the trustees report and financial statements…
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Resources: Journal article :
Assessing supply-side barriers to uptake of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy: A qualitative study and document and record review in two regions of Uganda
Background Intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine (SP), provided as part of routine antenatal care (ANC), is one of three malaria-in-pregnancy prevention…
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ACCESS-SMC Partners' Meeting 2016
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Videos :
The Pneumonia Diagnostics Project: evaluating devices for accuracy
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in children under five in both Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. A large number of the children who die from pneumonia do so as a result of…
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Resources: Journal article :
Exposure to deltamethrin affects development of Plasmodium falciparum inside wild pyrethroid resistant Anopheles gambiae s.s. mosquitoes in Uganda
Background Pyrethroid resistance in African vector mosquitoes is a threat to malaria control. Resistant mosquitoes can survive insecticide doses that would normally be lethal. We studied effects of…
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Resources: Presentation :
Using social and behaviour change communication to create a malaria control culture
This presentation was given at the first International Summit on Social and Behaviour Change Communication in February 2016. It discusses the results and lessons learnt from a project implemented in…
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Resources: Presentation :
Using social and behaviour change communication to create demand for mosquito nets in the private sector
This presentation was given at the first International Summit on Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) in February 2016. It discusses the results of a three-year project implemented by…
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Resources: Presentation :
Community dialogues for child health: Results from a qualitative process evaluation in three countries
This presentation was given at the first International Summit on Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) in February 2016. It discusses a process evaluation conducted to assess communities’…
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COMDIS-HSD annual review highlights 2015 achievements
COMDIS-HSD, a Research Programme Consortium (RPC), which conducts operational research to improve health service delivery for underserved populations, released its annual review today. The review…
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Resources: Journal article :
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
IntroductionFollowing introduction of iCCM, data from cross-sectional household surveys were examined for socioeconomic inequalities in uptake of treatment and use of iCCM among children with a…
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Resources: Journal article :
Valuing the work of unpaid community health workers and exploring the incentives to volunteering in rural Africa
Abstract Community health worker (CHW) programmes are currently being scaled-up in sub-Saharan Africa to improve access to healthcare. CHWs are often volunteers; from an economic perspective, this…
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How Uganda tackles pneumonia, the world's #1 infectious killer
In Uganda, Malaria Consortium is working with the government and partners to improve child health through better diagnosis and treatment for pneumonia. Learn more about our work in integrated…