Uganda, 20 December 2011: Saul Morris, the Senior Programmes Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, expressed a strong interest during his most recent visit to Uganda in the evolution of Integrated Community Case Mana…
London, 13 December 2011: The new 2011 WHO World Malaria Report shows that there has been encouraging progress in the fight against malaria.
Sunil Mehra, Executive Director of Malaria Consortium, commented: “Great strides h…
Every year, the Nigerian Honourable Commissioner for Health with the Permanent Secretaries of the State Ministry of Health and Health Service Commission and the Lagos State Teaching Hospital (LUTH) (the Lagos State Health Family) …
Has malaria been given more attention than pneumonia in the fight against child mortality? If so, why?
These are the two key questions that led an evidence-based discussion this week in Kampala, Uganda at the event ‘ROLL BA…
Abuja, 8th December 2011: There are over 100 million malaria cases annually in Nigeria and the disease is responsible for the deaths of nearly 300,000 children under five, as well as 11 percent of overall maternal mortality.…
London, 23 November 2011: Malaria Consortium is proud to have taken part for the third year in the Guardian Development Journalism Competition 2011. On Thursday 17 November, the award ceremony, held at the Royal Academy of Arts in…
Malaria Consortium’s participation in this year’s Guardian International Development Journalism Competition has seen our finalists travel to Nigeria and Uganda. Both topics chosen this year for the journalists focus on…
Malaria Consortium has produced a set of country programme ‘brochures’ to highlight the organisation’s work on the ground.
The country programme brochures illustrate the range of Malaria Consortium’s work,…
In Cambodia, 2.5 million children under the age of five are at risk of malaria, with an estimated 80,664 cases being reported in 2008. Despite these statistics, the country has set a goal of eliminating malaria by 2025. Malaria Co…
In 2009, Malaria Consortium received a special initiative grant from the UK charity Comic Relief to set up the Pioneer project in Uganda. One of the aims of the project was to interrupt the transmission of malaria through mass dis…
Community health workers have existed in rural areas of Mozambique for decades but lacked support and knowledge to make a real impact. Training, implemented by the Ministry of Health and with technical support from Malaria Consort…
Malaria Consortium is committed to sustainability and high impact work on the ground. It is a firm belief of the organisation that this is most readily achieved through successfully working in partnerships to maximise effect and r…
As an organisation working closely with and building capacity of community health workers, Malaria Consortium is pleased to acknowledge the joint statement by UNICEF, WHO, IFRC, Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) and UNHCR on…
A regional training workshop is taking place to strengthen malaria monitoring and evaluation for the Greater Mekong Sub-region Countries.
Strengthening capacity for monitoring and evaluation of malaria programmes in the countries…
Seattle, 18 October 2011: This week key stakeholders in the malaria world are meeting in Seattle to reflect on the challenges faced and the progress made in the fight towards eliminating malaria.
According to the World Health Org…
“With common resolve and a united front, I think we can have a world where, within our contemplative lifetimes, no-one will die from malaria.”Speaking yesterday at the UK launch of a new report firom the Roll Back Mala…
London, 6 July 2011: A new report authored by a coalition of 38 aid agencies including Malaria Consortium calls on donors to get their priorities for tackling poverty in the new Republic of South Sudan right from the sta…
London, 19 July 2011: Malaria Consortium’s inSCALE project (innovations at scale for community access and lasting effects) has produced two new films to highlight the need for community based agents (CBAs) in Uganda – …
You can now help save lives via your mobile phone. All it takes is just one text message and a £5 donation to pay for the delivery of a life-saving mosquito net, which can protect two people for up to three years. …
Malaria Consortium is working in Mozambique to bring health care to the most remote communities. Village members are coming forward to be trained to providing life-saving care to those who need it most. Miguel Tomas, 27, was a …
When they become ill, children under the age of five require immediate medical attention to prevent their condition becoming more severe and ultimately life-threatening . In rural areas, their chances of survival are also reduced …
London, 19 July 2011: The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has published a series of malaria endemic country profiles co-authored by Malaria Consortium. The profiles were designed to provide a detailed an…
London, 18 July 2011: Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce the start of a new project in Mbale, eastern Uganda with the support of Comic Relief to support and improve the management of malaria in the district. Malaria i…
London, 11 July 2011: The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPG) publishes its seventh annual report this week, focusing on gains in malaria control and prevention since 2000 as well …
Malaria Consortium is delighted that two entrants who wrote about Malaria Consortium’s theme, have made it onto the finalists’ longlist for the Guardian International Development Journalism Competition 2011.  …
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 practice of rapid fluid resuscitatio…
London, 26 May 2011: Malaria Consortium is backing a new initiative by Lloydspharmacy to raise awareness of the importance of protecting against malaria when travelling to malaria endemic countries by significantly reducing the …
Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce the launch of a dedicated microsite to share its innovative work on the scale-up of integrated community case management (ICCM) of infectious diseases in young children in Uganda and M…
Geneva, 13 May 2011: The UK's Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development, Stephen O' Brien, praised Malaria Consortium and photographer Adam Nadel for their powerful exhibition Malaria: blood, sweat, and …
London, 3rd May 2011: Malaria Consortium is excited to be participating in the Guardian International Development Journalism Competition launching today. The competition has been created by Marie Stopes International and The Gu…
London, 21 April 2011: The Financial Times has published a special report on malaria to highlight the progress that has been made in tackling malaria but also to expand on the many issues and challenges still faced. The FT Spec…
London, 19th April 2011: As World Malaria Day approaches, Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce that it has distributed almost 15 million insecticide-treated mosquito nets since it began operations in 2003. When used cor…
London 20 April 2011: This World Malaria Day, you can help swat those malaria carrying mosquitoes in a fun new iPhone game, and at the same time raise money to help buy nets to protect children from this deadly disease. End Mal…
London, 19 April 2011: Malaria Consortium’s new film is short but sweet. It may start with the appalling numbers of children who die from the disease, but it also tells another story – one that shows it is not all bad …
Malaria Consortium has just published the final report from the Uganda Malaria Communities Partnership project to reduce malaria-related deaths and suffering among pregnant women and children below the age of five through communit…
Oslo, 12 April 2011: "We need to change our approaches to delivery and the gathering of evidence and its use at the local level to address those who fall through the gaps; if we don’t, we will not achieve universa…
London, 18 March 2011: Red Nose Day is back. After two years away, Comic Relief is encouraging people in the UK to beat 2009’s incredible total of £82.3 million by raising or donating money to fund projects to support …
Kampala, 22 February 2011: Malaria Consortium Uganda is training health workers in the use of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria in the hope that more widespread use will improve fever case management in health facilities…
London, 21 February 2011: Malaria Consortium, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in Southern Sudan and other partners, has been conducting crucial mapping of disease prevalence across the states. This wi…
London, 21 February 2011: Malaria Consortium Uganda played host to members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG) who came on a study tour of the country to learn more about the mal…
London, 21 February 2011: Malaria Consortium has produced three new country brochures to highlight its extensive work in Cambodia, Mozambique and Uganda. These brochures highlight the variety in Malaria Consortium's work and exp…
London, 3 February 2011, Malaria Consortium is excited to announce the launch of a brilliant new arcade-like game called End Malaria! It is available to buy on the iTunes store now and can be played on the iPhone, …
London, 3 February 2011: Malaria Consortium and Adam Nadel\'s photographic exhibition, Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears, is currently on show at the Global Health Odyssey Museum in Atlanta until 20th May 2011. We are…
London, 3 February 2011: Malaria Consortium has produced two new case studies from a highly successful project in Mozambique that ended in December 2010. The project aimed to reach as many people as possible, especially the most v…
London, 24 January 2010: Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) are recommended as the most cost-effective and sustainable mosquito net for malaria prevention. The technology of LLINs was developed in the late 1990s as a response …
London, 18 January 2011: The UK Government has signed an agreement to fund a £7.5 million project to help improve the health and lives of millions of people in some of the world’s poorest countries, whilst ensuring tha…
London, 14 January 2011: Malaria Consortium has conducted a mass drug administration for trachoma in Unity State, Southern Sudan, where the disease is endemic and up to 80% of children are infected with the bacterium.
Tracho…London, 12 January: Over 100 stakeholders from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Roll Back Malaria partnership (RBM) have developed a global response plan to the growing threat of resistance to a critical element in anti…
London, 7 January 2011: Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce that Dr Julian Lob-Levyt has accepted the role of chair of Malaria Consortium’s Board of Directors. He succeeds the Honourable Stephen O’ Brien MP, wh…
London, 7 January: The UK government Department for International Development (DFID) has confirmed its commitment to spend up to £500 million each year for malaria with the publishing of a strategic document stating its prio…