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A group of experts met last week to launch a report from the World Health Organisation and to talk about how best to stamp out the disease.
2016 has been a “tr…
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This month, experts and Members of Parliament discussed how best to tackle the growing threat of dengue fever.
“Looking at dengue makes the fight against malaria seem…
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Malaria Report 2016 highlights that there has been a significant improvement in access to effective malaria-fighting interventions. However, gaps in coverage remain in high ma…
Malaria Consortium welcomes the newly published Bilateral and Multilateral Development Reviews from the Department for International Development (DFID), which recognise the incredible impact UK aid has made around the world.
The …
Malaria Consortium will be giving a number of presentations at this year’s Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting (JITMM) in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference will be held from December 7-9 with the theme ‘Uncov…
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. This is great news for a country that has one o…
Today, Malaria Consortium is delighted to be positioned as a GiveWell top recommended charity.
GiveWell is a world-renowned meta-NGO that recommends charities by assessing them on four criteria: effectiveness, cost-effectiv…
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Malaria Consortium’s new report on the under-reported spread of dengue calls for greater focus and funding to tackle this growing public health threat
Dengue f…
Malaria Consortium’s new report on the under-reported spread of dengue calls for greater focus and funding to tackle this growing public health threat
Dengue fever, a viral neglected tropical disease (NTD) that is spread by…
Malaria Consortium Cambodia is delighted to have received the best e-poster discussion award for its integrated vector management for dengue control project at the 8th Asian Congress of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in Bangkok.
&…
Maputo, 17 November 2016 – A community dialogue approach to the prevention and treatment of schistosomiasis, one of a group of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), has successfully increased community ownership of this health…
On this World Pneumonia Day, Malaria Consortium is proud to announce a new project in the fight against one of the leading causes of child mortality: pneumonia
London, 12 November 2016 - Malaria Consortium is working with UNICEF&…
Malaria Consortium staff are presenting at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s 65th annual meeting from November 13 – 17. The annual meeting, to be held in Atlanta, USA draws tropical medicine and g…
The fourth Global Health System Research Symposium will commence Monday with the theme ‘resilient and responsive health systems for a changing world’. The symposium will include over one hundred 90-minute concurrent se…
On November 15 Malaria Consortium is leading the Pneumonia Symposium at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s 65th annual meeting. The symposium will present recent research results designed to enhance glob…
The implementation of a large-scale distribution of 2.8 million long lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLIN) in northern Mozambique will be officially launched today by President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi. LLIN distribution on such a s…
A recently implemented community dialogue approach to the prevention of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Nampula, Mozambique, has improved knowledge and increased community ownership of health issues, a preliminary evaluation…
Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Marcel Tanner as Chair of the Board of Trustees. His appointment comes following a transition from the previous Chair, Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt, who steps down a…
October 2016, Dhaka, Bangladesh - “I want to thank Malaria Consortium for giving us their brains.”
So said Professor Dr. A K M Shamsuzzaman, Director of the Disease Control and Line Director, Communicable Disease Cont…
Malaria Consortium is engaging in an exciting opportunity in Myanmar to demonstrate that community-based health services can be truly effective against childhood diseases.
Co-funded by UK Aid and Vitol Foundation, Malaria Consort…
Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce that we have entered into a new eight month cooperative agreement worth US $1.2 million to expand our successful community-based mobile health (mHealth) system in Cabo Delgado, Mozambiqu…
Community Health Workers (CHW) play a key role in the ACCESS-SMC campaigns, each of them administering life-saving preventive malaria treatment to hundreds of children every day.
As CHWs, most of the people participating in the d…
[{dx-module-home_justgiving}] When your child is sick from a fever, vomiting or suffering from dehydration from constant diarrhoea, you need to seek urgent medical help. If you live in a rural area with no transport, you need that…
Donors met at the fifth replenishment conference of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on 16-17 September in Montreal, Canada to pledge US$12.9 billion to fight the three targeted diseases. This historic finan…
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce that it has been selected to implement USAID/PMI’s Uganda’s Malaria Action Program for Districts Project. The contract is valued at over US$41 million and will run for a period…
As part of the 2016 ACCESS-SMC campaign, more than 30 million SMC treatments will be distributed to over six million children, living in seven countries[1] across the Sahel region. Distributions have now begun in almost all of the…
Malaria is one of the most significant health threats in Ethiopia where, in spite of available preventive measures, many people remain unsure of the ways to protect themselves from the threat of this disease. Thanks to Malaria Con…
Malaria is one of the leading causes of sickness and death for children under five in Ethiopia, with the disease particularly prevalent in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR). In this region, in spi…
During a recent visit to the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR), Ethiopia, Malaria Consortium teams visited the Meja Primary School to hear how our awareness raising project has improved both health seeki…
Malaria Consortium welcomes the findings of a new report by the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee (IDC) into the effectiveness of the UK Department for International Development’s (DFID) programmes in…
Mozambique still faces major challenges in reducing maternal and child morbidity and mortality, despite making significant progress over the past decade. Because so many children live beyond the periphery of the health system, pri…
Malaria Consortium is the lead partner of the Achieving catalytic expansion of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in the Sahel (ACCESS-SMC) project, which supports National Malaria Control Programmes in the Sahel regi…
In March 2016 Malaria Consortium Advocacy Manager Alex Hulme visited Cambodia to collect a case study of our "integrated vector management for dengue control in Cambodia" project. Whilst there, he spoke with community health volun…
On 9th June, Malaria Consortium ran a symposium in London entitled Transforming the malaria landscape in the Sahel: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention.
In the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa, the risk of malaria increases w…
In 2015, the ACCESS-SMC project pioneered SMC delivery at scale, providing lifesaving preventive malaria treatment to 3.2 million children under five in seven countries across the Sahel.
In Nigeria ACCESS-SMC is being imple…
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Strong health systems are critical to international efforts to tackle emerging health emergencies, such as Ebola and Zika.
Global health emergencies have barely been out o…
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 injectable artesunate …
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, spreading from nine…
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Malaria Consortium welcomes the high level of support for the UK’s commitment to spend 0.7 percent of GNI on aid, seen at the Westminster Hall debate in pa…
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 falling sick or dying …
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. Typically found in tropic…
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"We need a scaling up of domestic and international resources" to end malaria, says Malaria Consortium.
Fifteen years ago, malaria killed a child every 30 seconds. Un…
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 contribution to the fight ag…
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 to identify the most accurate a…
This year’s World Malaria Day, held on April 25th, saw Malaria Consortium engage in a diverse range of activities in many of our countries. The commemorative day, which was established by the United Nations in 2007, provides…
As the 2016 SMC campaign approaches, it is essential that all stakeholders are mobilized and are involved in the process of microplanning. This ensures the successful roll out of the SMC intervention, and in turn guarantees that a…
In 2015, Burkina Faso implemented seasonal malaria chemoprevention in 11 health districts during the months of August, September, October and November thanks to the ACCESS-SMC project and with the technical support of Malaria Cons…
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 in the Sahel: Seasonal malaria c…
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 gathered information about adherence…
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 recorded worldw…
In South Sudan, Malaria Consortium saves lives by preventing and treating malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea and undernutrition
The approach
Since 2009, Malaria Consortium has been implementing a programme for the integrated communi…
Have you ever wondered what a campaign to deliver over 15 million SMC treatments to over 3 million children, across 7 countries looks like?
The videos below will give you a glimpse into what it is like to roll out such a large sc…
London, 25 April 2016 – “Significant progress in malaria control and elimination has been made between 2000 and now, with malaria mortality rates falling by 60 percent and over 6.2 million lives saved since 2000. This …
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As we mark World Malaria Day on the 25 April, Malaria Consortium calls on the UK to place strengthening disease surveillance systems to find and treat every malaria case at…
Extending access, and increasing use, of mosquito nets amongst those most at risk from malaria – pregnant women and children under the age of five – has been a significant factor contributing to a massive decrease in m…
Cape Town, 21 April 2015 – “We are delighted to have been chosen for the ‘Change Communication’ award. We hope that this campaign approach can inspire other public health campaigns to engage the private sec…
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Whilst cases of malaria are finally on the decline, Malaria Consortium argues a long-term global programme is needed to quell dengue fever, one of the fastest growing infect…
Malaria Consortium hosted a dissemination workshop on our pneumonia diagnostics work in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, which seeks to identify the most accurate and user-friendly tools for diagnosing pneumonia symptoms in …
Malaria Consortium has recently published a paper in Malaria Journal which describes our experiences carrying out an innovative approach to malaria control in Cambodia. Originally used to improve nutrition outcomes in the 1970s, &…
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of 17 infectious diseases that can be devastating to those they affect – mainly people in poor and remote communities with limited access to healthcare. Many NTDs can be managed…
Bangkok, 9 March 2016 – “Every day we see evidence of the impact of infectious diseases, not only on our health systems, but on our economy and most importantly the everyday life of our people.”
Dr. Amnuay Gajee…
Yangon, Myanmar - “Scaling up insecticide-treated clothing and targeting migrant and mobile populations in Myanmar is crucial. Treated clothing partly fills a gap in personal protection of vulnerable populations who are expo…
Insecticide-treated mosquito nets have contributed to the prevention of millions of deaths due to malaria.
In recent years, there has been growing concern that mosquitoes are becoming resistant to the pyrethroid insecticides used…
Accurate estimation of the quantity of SP+AQ, currently the recommended SMC medicine, is one of the critical supply chain management functions needed to ensure that all eligible children receive this lifesaving treatment. Inaccura…
As ACCESS-SMC countries [1] prepare for the launch of the 2016 SMC campaign, during which twice as many children will benefit from the lifesaving preventive treatment, they were given the opportunity to reflect on lessons learned …
Malaria Consortium, together with Montrose, has developed an interactive online malaria guide for the private sector in the Asia-Pacific region. This guide will help companies manage the detrimental effects – both human and …
Abuja, 18 February 2016 - “I am inspired by the efforts of SuNMaP and its partners. There is no question that SuNMaP has had a huge impact upon malaria in Nigeria.”
Dr Ngozi Azodoh, Assistant Director - MDGs and Resou…
Abuja, 16 February 2016 - SuNMaP, the Support to National Malaria Programme, has come to an end after eight years of working to improve Nigeria’s health system. Today – on the first of a two-day event in Abuja, Nigeria…
Malaria Consortium is attending the first International Summit on Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) from February 8-10 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The conference will bring together leading experts of the SBCC approac…
The World Health Organization has declared the recent outbreak of the Zika virus in Latin American countries a public health emergency. The mosquito-borne disease, which carries symptoms such as mild fever and joint pains, has rec…
London, UK - “Malaria Consortium welcomes the recommitment from the UK Government to spend £500m a year to fight malaria,” said Chief Executive, Charles Nelson, following the announcement today by the UK Cha…
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Malaria Consortium welcomes five-year £3 billion commitment to fight malaria and calls for other countries to follow the UK's lead.
“Malaria Consortium wel…
COMDIS-HSD, a Research Programme Consortium (RPC), which conducts operational research to improve health service delivery for underserved populations, released its annual review today. The review highlights the RPC’s achieve…