537 items related to 'Uganda'
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Malaria Consortium says every breath counts in its fight against pneumonia
London, 12 November 2014 - On this sixth annual World Pneumonia Day, Malaria Consortium and its partners are organising different events throughout the world to raise awareness on pneumonia, the…
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Pneumonia prevention and care available for every child is key to defeat world's #1 infectious killer of children
Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia Press Release Pneumonia prevention and care available for every child is key to defeat world’s #1 infectious killer of children On the sixth annual World…
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Impact of a behaviour change communication programme on net durability in eastern Uganda
This poster presented at the 63rd annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conference from 3–6 November 2014. It assesses the effect on net durability of a net care and repair…
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Effectiveness and treatment adherence to artemether-lumefantrine colour coded unit dosed blister-packs versus standard blister-packs in the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Ugandan children: A randomised controlled equivalence trial
This poster was presented at the 63rd annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conference from 3–6 November 2014. It shows that standard blister-packs could serve as alternatives to…
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ICCM in practice
Clare Strachan discusses lessons learnt from a participatory evaluation across three African countries (South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia).
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Assessment of communication and clinical skills of community health workers in rural Uganda
Presentation by Dr James Ssekitooleko from Malaria Consortium.
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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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Malaria Consortium at ASTMH
Malaria Consortium at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in New Orleans, November 3 - 6 Malaria Consortium will be giving a number of presentations at the 63rd annual…
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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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Delivering health services to children through integrated community case management in Uganda
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce that Agnes Nanyonjo, Research Officer in our Uganda office, has completed her doctoral thesis on 'Delivering health services to children through integrated…
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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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Malaria Consortium presents at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems
Malaria Consortium was well represented at this week’s Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town, which ran from 30 September until 3 October 2014. The conference was attended…
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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…