In Uganda, Malaria Consortium Country Director reports that experience supports the roll out of RDTs country wide.
On 14 December, Malaria Consortium and the Uganda Ministry of Health hosted an event on the lessons learned from t…
Malaria Consortium welcomes the release of the World Health Organisation’s World Malaria Report 2012. The report provides encouraging updates on progress made in the fight to control malaria, but also raises concerns about t…
In response to the recent news of the incorporation of the Affordable Medicines for Malaria scheme (AMFm) into the financial processes of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Malaria Consortium believes t…
On the 2 November 2012 representatives of the countries of the Asia Pacific region formulated a long term goal to eliminate malaria from the region. The Asia Pacific region has been winning the fight against malaria over the…
On World Pneumonia Day 2012, Malaria Consortium is calling for the scale-up of life saving community-based interventions for child survival. Pneumonia is a preventable and treatable disease which kills 1.2 million children globall…
Containing drug resistance and accelerating progress to malaria elimination in Asia
31 October 2012 - In 2010, 30 million malaria cases were reported and 42,000 lives lost in the Asia-Pacific region, where malaria affects 20 coun…
In Nigeria, where a quarter of global malaria cases and deaths occur, Malaria Consortium is working with the government to build national capacity to tackle the disease Abuja, Nigeria 2012 - A quarter of all malaria cases and…
Apada Camp, Aweil Center County, South Sudan - "Over 100 mothers are crowded under the tree in Apada camp, each with a baby in her arms and another two or three young children waiting in amongst their brightly coloured skirts. The…
Fernando Bambo, Communications and Advocacy Coordinator for Malaria Consortium Mozambique, visited Lindela to speak to community members there about health, malaria and the impact of Malaria Consortium’s work in the area.
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Chiang Mai, Thailand, 28 September 2012 - Despite significant reductions in malaria morbidity and mortality in recent decades, high-risk areas remain in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Major advances have been made to reduce t…
London, UK, 6 September 2012 – Malaria Consortium welcomes the appointment of the Rt Hon Justine Greening MP as the UK’s Secretary of State for International Development.“We are delighted that DFID will be led by…
Catherine Nassiwa is a senior nursing officer in Kiboga district, mid-western Uganda and also works as the Malaria Focal Person of the district. In this role she is responsible for coordinating activities in the area such as mobil…
Entebbe, Uganda 20 July 2012: Malaria Consortium welcomes the pledge by President Bill Clinton and President Yoweri Museveni today to increase support to reduce the 14,000 annual childhood deaths caused by diarrhoea in Uganda. At …
Dr Evelyn Patrick, a Senior Clinical Expert with Malaria Consortium Nigeria, talks to Senior Community Health Extension Worker (SCHEW), Esther Gimba. Esther works in Gauraka Model Primary Health Care Centre, a health facility in N…
NetWorks, a five-year USAID-funded global project focusing on distribution and use of LLINs, is led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHUCCP), with partners Malaria Consortiu…
CHICAGO – Malaria: blood, sweat and tears, an exhibition produced by award-winning US photographer Adam Nadel with international non-profit health organization, Malaria Consortium, opens tomorrow to the public at the Field M…
With the 2015 target for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals fast approaching, governments, academics, NGOs and agencies alike joined together on June 14-15 to issue a rallying call to end preventable child deaths.…
Cross-border mobile and migrant populations are one of the key target groups that need to be specifically addressed when it comes to malaria elimination. Malaria Consortium Asia is using experience gained through behaviour change …
Malaria Consortium's Pioneer project is training village health teams (VHTs) in Uganda, to use anti-malarials for treating patients with severe malaria. With mortality at its highest in the first 48 hours, an anti-malarial calle…
A research paper of the FEAST (Fluid Expansion As Supportive Therapy) Investigatory group has been awarded first place in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Group Improving Health Awards 2012. The paper was written after the eviden…
The purpose of the Beyond Garki project is to support health services in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda and Cambodia to monitor the changing malaria epidemiology within the context of available interventions and assess the conditions n…
Malaria Consortium and Adam Nadel’s Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears photographic exhibition opened at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, France on 21 May 2012.
Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears, an exhibition by award-winning…
A guest post from Peter Lighting who ran the 2012 London Marathon for Malaria Consortium raising over £1200!
I had wanted to run the London Marathon for ages and had applied in the ballot unsuccessfully for the last fo…
On 25 April, hundreds of people travelled to Assosa Stadium – in Ethiopia’s western region of Benishangul-Gumuz – to celebrate World Malaria Day 2012.
Raising awareness of malaria is crucial in Benishangul-Gumuz…
This year’s world malaria day has the global theme: Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria. This message could not come at a better time. The global effort to tackle malaria has picked up pace in recent years and impre…
Malaria Consortium’s Pioneer Project, funded by the UK charity Comic Relief, is training health workers at low level health facilities in Uganda to diagnose accurately and quickly malaria in patients using Rapid Diagnostic T…
The approach of World Malaria Day 2012 has seen a flurry of activity in the UK Parliament around global health concerns, with both the All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases and the International …
Tosin Kareem, 25, is nine months’ pregnant with her second child and seems pleased to be sitting down. The apprentice book printer is taking part in a discussion group about malaria at her ante-natal clinic. It’s a pea…
Malaria Consortium and Adam Nadel’s Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears photographic exhibition is being launched at the National Museum of Ghana in Accra on 20 April 2012.
Award-winning photographer Adam Nadel’s ex…
The Mbale Malaria Control Project was officially launched on 15 March 2012 at the Mbale district headquarters. Over 220 people attended the event organised by the Mbale project team and the District Health Team. The Comic Relief f…
In Uganda, Malaria Consortium has trained over 7,000 Village Health Team (VHT) volunteers. Solomon Spaya is one of them.
Solomon is 37 years old and lives in Kinogozi West Village, Western Uganda, with his wife Joanna and their t…
Despite widespread interventions, community awareness of malaria and the use of malaria control tools has been worryingly low in the South Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia. Most of the region&rsq…
Malaria Consortium first filmed Christopher Sewanyana in 2009, as a volunteer net distributor for the Pioneer project in Hoima, Uganda. He told us how important Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLINs) were in his commu…
The Containment project was an innovative three-year project aimed at addressing growing concerns of resistance to anti-malaria drugs along the Thai-Cambodia border funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Malaria Consor…
New research, has shown that the distribution of free Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) through campaigns has had a significant impact on ownership and use of ITNs in Kano, Northern Nigeria, which increased from 10 percent, to 70 pe…
Around 1.2 million people died from malaria in 2010. This is still a significant 32% decline since the peak number of recorded deaths in 2004, however, these figures are almost double those reported in the 2011 World Mal…
London, 31st January 2012: Drug companies, politicians and experts have come together to tackle some of the world’s most neglected Tropical Diseases. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, pledging over £230 million,…
NetWorks, a five-year USAID-funded global project focusing on distribution and use of LLINs, is led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHUCCP), with partners Malaria Consortiu…
London, 05 January 2012: Last December, inSCALE held its first technical advisory group meeting. The Malaria Consortium invited a group of nine experts from all over the world to Kampala, Uganda, to discuss progress of the inSCALE…