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VIDEO: Urgent political support needed to protect the Sahel's 25 million children (Politics Home)
This article was originally published on Politics Home. The organisation calls for urgent political and financial support of seasonal malaria chemoprevention to protect children from malaria 'when…
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Moving towards the final study stage, the field evaluation
From September to November 2015, the field evaluation will explore the usability and acceptability of the nine devices that were tested during the accuracy evaluation. Whilst the previous stage aimed…
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Building capacity through the 'training of trainers' approach
In each project country, three master trainers were recruited to participate in the Pneumonia Diagnostics project to cascade training to the community health workers and first level health facility…
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Our first steps, narrowing the list of devices
Over a twelve month period, the Pneumonia Diagnostics project identified and selected the most promising and appropriate devices for field testing in the four project countries. A landscape analysis…
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Malaria Consortium's support to planning and capacity building in Nigeria acknowledged at Annual Performance Review
During August, an evaluation team from the UK Department for International Development (DfID) met with stakeholders and partners in Nigeria as part of its annual programme review of ‘Support to…
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Case Study: Feedback from the field, Burkina Faso
Malaria Consortium talks to Community Health Worker (CHW), Ipala Zidwemba, about his experience of administering SMC in the rural district of Boulsa, Burkina Faso. “The CHWs are the people who bring…
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By implementing seasonal malaria chemoprevention we are one step closer to eradicating malaria in the Sahel
Malaria Consortium's Programme Manager for the Burkina Faso country office, Dr. Victor Nana, discusses the recent SMC distributions in Burkina Faso, citing the challenges faced and highlighting the…
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Improving drug safety monitoring systems in SMC implementation areas
Ensuring safety of drugs is a paramount principle of public health and a moral requirement for all organizations and individuals involved in public health interventions. Establishing robust…
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Sultan of Sokoto thanks ACCESS-SMC partners for 'listening to the yearnings of the people'
To mark the beginning of SMC mass drug administration in Nigeria, the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tanbuwal, hosted a launch event on 23rd July 2015. Over 200 participants attended this launch,…
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ACCESS-SMC trains over 28,000 health workers in preparation for SMC distributions
In the run up to the launch of SMC distributions, ACCESS-SMC partners collaborated with the seven supported countries, working with National Malaria Control Programs (NMCP) and other government…
