Takalani Makhanthisa, a recipient of Malaria Consortium’s Dr Sylvia Meek Scholarship for Entomology in 2018, has won the award for best poster at the 4th Southern African Malaria Research Conference held at the National Inst…
Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce that its seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme has been awarded ‘top charity’ status by GiveWell for the third year in a row.
GiveWell is a US-based non-profit organisa…
World Malaria Report 2018: urgent action needed to reach global targets
The latest World Malaria Report, published today by the World Health Organization, shows that malaria cases have increased for the second consecutive year, w…
Malaria Consortium calls for urgent action to kickstart the drive towards malaria elimination, as WHO report confirms global progress has slowed
London, 19 November 2018 – The annual World Malaria Report, which is published…
London, 12 November 2018 – On this year’s World Pneumonia Day, Malaria Consortium is calling on the international community to increase its support for innovation as it tackles the world’s biggest infectious kill…
A film documenting Malaria Consortium’s iCCM-MaCS project in southern Uganda has been nominated in the Charity Film Awards. It is the latest in a line of Malaria Consortium films to be submitted to the awards, and unde…
More than 70 participants attended a meeting to discuss the annual review of the upSCALE project, carried out by the Provincial Directorate of Heath of Cabo Delgado in partnership with Malaria Consortium, two years after the launc…
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce its endorsement of the Principles for Digital Development. This set of nine guidelines, designed by an international working group, promotes best practice in international development digi…
More than 500 delegates attended the 9th Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network (NNN) annual Conference in Addis Ababa last week, for which the overarching theme was reaching ‘the last billion’ people affected by negle…
Malaria Consortium convened a successful two-day symposium on malaria surveillance in Maputo, Mozambique this week, in collaboration with the National Malaria Control Programme. The symposium brought together major stakeholders se…
The continuing partnership between Malaria Consortium and Mahidol University has seen two new students receive the Dr Sylvia Meek scholarship in Entomology.
Shobiechah Aldillah Wulandhari, a national of Indonesia, and Kiattiyos R…
Another rainy season brings malaria preventive treatment to children
July 2018 marks the fourth year Malaria Consortium will provide preventive treatments to children under five to protect them from malaria during the rainy seaso…
The first stage of a new pilot intervention to detect, manage and record neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) at primary healthcare level in Ethiopia has been completed, resulting in the training of approximately 100 health workers.…
Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme (SMC) is top-rated by GiveWell for the project’s evidence of effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, transparency and room for additional funding. This evaluat…
As the world’s youngest nation makes headway in attaining universal health coverage, Malaria Consortium is the first organisation to implement a new initiative in South Sudan.
The Boma Health Initiative (BHI) is a new natio…
A new project starting in Bangladesh will help combat the growing global threat of antibiotic resistance. The new study will develop, adapt and pilot-test the comm…
“Getting good data on malaria is essential. Like a puzzle, each piece fits together to help experts understand trends such as how many people are getting sick and how many have died.” - WHO
This year the World Health …
On 18th April, a landmark £2.9bn ($4.1bn) commitment was made to invest in ridding the Commonwealth of malaria.
The collective commitments were made at the Malaria Summit London 2018, held the day before the Commonwealth He…
Field trials conducted in Ethiopia and the DRC, with approximately 8,000 participants across the two studies, suggest that uncomplicated fever can be safely managed with conditional, rather than universal, three-day follow-up. Thi…
Dakar, 16 April 2018 – “It isn’t every day that you get to reflect upon two decades of progress and challenges in the fight against malaria, surrounded by all the key stakeholders that are needed to sustain the g…
From 2012 to 2016 in Mozambique, Malaria Consortium developed and tested a mobile-phone based application to increase community health workers’ capacity to manage clinical cases better. The app reinforces their connection to…
On November 17th, 2017, Chad was the last country to complete the 2017 SMC round. This marked the last ‘implementation’ day of the ACCESS-SMC project, which is scheduled to end on February 28th, 2018. Through ACCESS-SM…
Two successful applicants receive Dr Sylvia Meek scholarship in Nigeria
A partnership between Malaria Consortium and the University of Nigeria at Nsukka has seen two successful applicants for the Dr Sylvia Meek scholarship in Ent…