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Dengue: a silent issue and a growing problem
To mark ASEAN Dengue Day, Malaria Consortium promoted a short animation called ‘Dengue: A silent issue and a growing problem’. Dengue is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the world,…
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Success treating severe malaria in Nigeria
Abuja, Nigeria – “Mortality rates in those states where we ran our severe malaria project fell from 25 to just one percent. These results are, in part, due to the project and show that the use of…
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Major malaria prevention method can save over 10 million young children in the Sahel
London, 9 June – “With the recent scale-up of the seasonal malaria chemoprevention approach, we know from research that in the Sahel region we can reduce the number of children under five who are…
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VIDEO: How to defeat one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases (Politics Home)
This article was originally published on Politics home. "We need a scaling up of domestic and international resources" to end malaria, says Malaria Consortium. Fifteen years ago, malaria killed a…
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Supporting dengue prevention and control in Myanmar
Dengue is a rapidly growing viral infection spread by the same species of mosquito as the Zika virus. Prior to 1970, only nine countries had witnessed epidemics – now that number stands at over 100.…
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Announcing the tragic loss of Dr Sylvia Meek
It is with deep sorrow that we must announce the passing of Dr Sylvia Meek, Malaria Consortium’s Global Technical Director, on 11th May 2016, after an 18-month battle with cancer. Sylvia’s…
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Pneumonia Diagnostics Project shares results at dissemination meetings in Cambodia
On March 15, 2016, Malaria Consortium hosted a workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to disseminate the preliminary results of our multi-country pneumonia diagnostics research project. The research aims…
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SMC in the Sahel: Ending Malaria for good with context specific approaches
Malaria is a major public health problem with about 3.2 billion people, nearly half the world's population, at risk from this disease. In 2015, 214 million cases of malaria and 438, 000 deaths were…
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Learning from the 2015 SMC campaign to improve coverage rates in 2016
Following the last SMC cycle in 2015, research groups in each of the 7 ACCESS-SMC countries undertook household surveys to collect information on SMC doses received each month. The surveys also…
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Transforming the malaria landscape in the Sahel: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention
As we prepare to embark upon the second season of SMC distribution as part of the ACCESS-SMC project, Malaria Consortium will hold the first ACCESS-SMC symposium: Transforming the malaria landscape…
