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Malaria
Consortium wish you all a safe and happy festive season. We look forward to
continuing our mission to improve lives and promote child and maternal health
in 2017! |
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Malaria Consortium December newsletter: Dengue edition
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It has been a busy time for Malaria Consortium's dengue projects. Over the last month our experts have presented at a parliamentary Dengue Round Table event in London, the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene's 65th annual meeting (ASTMH) in Atlanta, the Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting (JITMM) in Bangkok and a dissemination and policy uptake workshop in Phnom Penh.
See below for all the highlights, latest news and more.
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Malaria Consortium has demonstrated the effectiveness of a novel yet low-cost and home grown solution to dengue control that has the potential for wide scale application in Cambodia |
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Malaria Consortium gave a number of presentations at this year's Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting (JITMM) in Bangkok |
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See our animated video Dengue: a silent issue and a growing problem |
 | | On 30th November Malaria Consortium convened a high-level round table event at the UK Parliament to discuss our report Dengue: Falling between the cracks. The event drew a mixture of MPs as well as representatives from the World Health Organization, the Department for International Development, academia and the private sector.
Read the news item here.
Read the full report here. |
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 65th annual meeting |
This year's 65th annual ASTMH meeting was held in Atlanta, USA. The event drew a range of stakeholders from academic, government, NGO's, and the private sector. Malaria Consortium gave a number of presentations. See the schedule here.
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Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting |
JITMM is Southeast Asia's pre-eminent tropical medicine conference. This years conference was held in Bangkok Thailand with the theme 'Uncover Asian Tropical Medicine'.
See our news piece here. |
Dissemination and policy uptake workshop: Phnom Penh |
On 1 December Malaria Consortium organised the Dengue Integrated Vector Management dissemination and policy uptake
workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The event was a great success and attracted around 70 national and international participants, whose engagement contributed towards strong evidence-based policy recommendations to the Cambodian government. |
 | | Fact sheet: Dengue integrated vector management project
This fact sheet outlines the aims, methods and recommendations of the project and explains how guppy fish can reduce Dengue case incidence in Cambodia.
Read it here. |
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