541 items related to 'Uganda'
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Creating a private sector market for quality-assured RDTs in malaria endemic countries
Diagnosis is one of many crucial components in the fight against malaria. Misdiagnosis or a lack of proper diagnosis can often lead to worsening symptoms and even death in patients and can…
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Resources: Technical brief :
Reducing deaths from severe malaria
This Briefing Note describers a project by a consortium of partners, comprising Medicines for Malaria Venture, Clinton Health Access Initiatve and Malaria Consortium, to strengthen the market to…
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Improving access to quality care in Uganda
This Briefing Note describes a baseline and an endline survey conducted by Malaria Consortium to measure the impact of iCCM on improving health seeking behaviour and access to treatment for children…
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Resources: Learning paper :
Integrating mRDTs into the health system in Uganda: Preparing health workers for routine use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests
In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) changed its guidelines to state that all suspected malaria cases should be tested for the presence of malaria parasites by microscopy or malaria rapid…
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Neglected tropical diseases: A holistic vision for disease elimination
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect over 1.4 billion people worldwide and cause half a million deaths each year. They also cause chronic disability, stigma and ill health, disproportionally…
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Fostering a culture of malaria control in Uganda
This project brief describes a Malaria Consortium project in Tororo district, Uganda, which aims to reduce malaria mortality and morbidity by fostering a culture of malaria control at community and…
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Implementing integrated community case management: stakeholder experiences and lessons learned in three African countries
Malaria Consortium’s involvement in iCCM has spanned inputs to facilitate policy development, project design, implementation from start-up phase; ongoing support to the public health system in…
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Resources: Annual review :
Malaria Consortium 2003-2013: a decade in communicable disease control and child health
Malaria Consortium was founded in 2003 by a small team of people with a vision - to build the capacity of malaria-endemic countries worldwide to deal with a common and treatable disease that was…
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Improved tools for the measurement of respiratory rate and oxygen saturation for the detection of signs of pneumonia
This project aims to identify the most accurate, acceptable, scalable and user-friendly respiratory rate timers and pulse oximeters for the detection of pneumonia symptoms in children by community…
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Improving severe malaria outcomes
This project brief describes a UNITAID-funded project that aims to reduce severe malaria case fatality rates through improved access to and use of injectable artesunate for the treatment of severe…
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Resources: Technical brief :
Sustainable coverage of LLINs in Uganda
This Briefing Note describes Malaria Consortium's support to the Ministry of Health through the Pioneer project to distribute LLINs in four districts of Mid-Western Uganda in 2009-2010. It dicusses…
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completedThe Universal Coverage Campaign for Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLINs) in the Republic of Uganda
The universal coverage campaign project was a partnership between the Ministry of Health Uganda and Malaria Consortium, that aimed to distribute 21 million nets, with coverage of one net for every…
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completedProgramme Cooperation Agreement with Government of Uganda
The ICCM Central Project reduced under five child mortality by supporting the implementation of an effective and replicable community based treatment system for childhood malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea…
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completedPioneer Initiative
Pioneer was a Malaria Consortium Uganda project funded by Comic Relief UK. The project worked in mid-western Uganda to reduce both the number of cases of malaria and deaths caused by the disease by…
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Introduction of Newborn Care within Integrated Community Case Management in Uganda
Uganda’s Ministry of Health, together with partners, has introduced integrated community case management(iCCM) for children under 5 years. We assessed how the iCCM program addresses newborn care in…
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Integrated community case management of fever in children under five using rapid diagnostic tests and respiratory rate counting: A multi-country cluster randomized trial
This effectiveness trial, conducted in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda, compared a diagnostic and treatment package for malaria and pneumonia with presumptive treatment with antimalarial drugs.
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Community acceptability and adoption of integrated community case management in Uganda
Integrated community case management programmes require community sensitisation and targeted health systems strengthening to functioning optimally and enhance benefits such as reduced child mortality.
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Resources: Training materials :
A guide for trainers of VHTs: participatory approach to improve child health through village health clubs
Village health teams (VHTs) can play an important role in reducing the number of child deaths in Ugandan communities. In order to achieve this, they need to be properly trained, supported and…
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Resources: Poster :
Equity in uptake of diarrhoea and pneumonia treatment in a community case management program in Uganda
This poster is one of a series of presentations for the 62nd ASTMH Annual Meeting. It assesses if there were any changes in uptake of recommended first line treatment for diarrhoea and pneumonia…
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Perceived quality of care for common childhood illnesses: Facility versus community based providers in Uganda
Quality of care provided by community health workers is perceived to be higher than that of primary health facility workers in Uganda.