57 News items related to 'Uganda'
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The people behind Operation Health
Operation Health – Comic Relief’s initiative to refurbish a health facility with support from Malaria Consortium – has had widespread participation from the local community in Iyolwa, eastern Uganda.…
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Malaria Consortium's 'Stop Malaria Project' ends with close-out event
This month marked the completion of the Stop Malaria Project, which had been running across Uganda for six years. Funded by USAID/President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and led by Johns Hopkins…
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Red Nose Day 2015 marks the culmination of Operation Health project (Politics Home)
This article was originally published on Politics Home. Today is Red Nose Day, marking the culmination of Comic ReliefsOperation Healthproject in Uganda. The project, which began nine weeks ago,…
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Ugandan Pioneer Project unveils achievements and charts the way forward
25 February – With 100 percent of its population at risk of malaria and 15,632 deaths from malaria occurring last year, Uganda faces many challenges. Chief among these are high malaria transmission,…
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Pioneer Project - in pictures
Malaria Consortium’s Pioneer project was a five-year initiative in Uganda that reduced the malaria burden in the country using a variety of effective methods. Take a look at the gallery below to…
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Malaria Consortium supports Comic Relief's Operation Health campaign
Malaria Consortium is delighted to be part of Comic Relief’s main fundraising campaign for Red Nose Day this year - Operation Health, involving a major renovation of a dilapidated rural clinic in…
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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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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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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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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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InSCALE: Advocating for increased iCCM coverage in Uganda
Three quarters of deaths in children under five are caused by malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia often because access to quality health care is hardest in areas where the need is greatest. Uganda has…
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Uganda launches test kits project to boost malaria treatment in private health sector
16 September - Malaria Consortium, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and the National Drug Authority, WHO and other NGOs, has launched a $6.2 million (about £10.1 million) project to create…
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Historic campaign delivers mosquito nets to every household across Uganda
A universal LLIN campaign to distribute 21 million nets across Uganda reached completion this weekend and was marked at an event in Kampala. The first distribution of its kind in Uganda, the 16 month…
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Orientation on external quality assurance for malaria diagnostics
The Ugandan Ministry of Health, through funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, is rolling out external quality assurance (EQA) for malaria diagnostics across the…
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Improving pneumonia diagnostics through the use of counting beads
Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children worldwide. Every year it kills an estimated 1.2 million young children, accounting for approximately 18 percent of all deaths in this age group –…
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Trial Results Show Error in Routine Practice for Critically Ill Children
London, 27 May 2011: Results from a major clinical trial in East Africa show that the survival rate for children in shock as a result of severe infections is, in fact, lower when the accepted…