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Milestone for Mozambique as R21 malaria vaccine rolled out in Zambézia province
14 August 2024In another momentous step forward for child survival against malaria, Mozambique has become the 11th country to introduce a malaria vaccine. Last week, the first phase of the R21 vaccine rollout began in 22 districts of Zambézia province.
Malaria Consortium and eGov Foundation join Mozambique’s national malaria programme to digitalise seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaigns
8 February 2024In a new collaboration, Malaria Consortium and eGov Foundation will support Mozambique’s National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) to roll out a new digital tool to accelerate the digitalisation of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaigns.
Malaria Consortium launches rapid assessments project to help define the future of seasonal malaria chemoprevention
12 July 2023Malaria Consortium is conducting a new research project to carry out ‘rapid assessments’ in East and southern Africa to provide evidence on the suitability of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) as a malaria prevent…
Research shows improved malaria treatment is the most cost-effective approach to improving health outcomes in children
22 February 2023A study published in Malaria Journal by a team of researchers from organisations including the University of Michigan, Malaria Consortium, Mozambique’s Ministry of Health and USAID has found that malaria treatment, whether a…
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention intervention scaled up for the first time outside the Sahel
27 January 2023Mozambique has become the first country outside of the Sahel region to scale up its use of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC). Beginning today, Malaria Consortium, in collaboration with Mozambique’s National Malaria Cont…
Malaria Consortium presents data quality evaluation results to Mozambique’s Ministry of Health at national malaria strategy meeting
1 December 2022Malaria Consortium presented results from an evaluation of data quality for in-hospital malaria deaths to Mozambique’s Minister of Health at the at the 13th meeting of the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) in Maputo …
Community health workers are saving costs of care for the three major childhood illnesses in Mozambique and Uganda
7 October 2022New research from Mozambique and Uganda has shown that effectively trained community health workers (CHWs) can reduce treatment costs for malaria and pneumonia among children under five in rural areas of the countries. The finding…
Genomic surveillance used to improve malaria treatment in Mozambique
20 September 2022Health workers in Mozambique are collecting samples for genomic surveillance of malaria to monitor malaria transmission intensity and resistance to antimalarial drugs and diagnostics.
Mozambique has the fourth-highest malaria bur…
Assessing the effectiveness of a community digital health platform in Mozambique
26 July 2022In a new learning paper published today, Malaria Consortium reviews the effectiveness of upSCALE, a community digital health platform implemented in Mozambique. Over a four-year period, upSCALE proved to be a supportive, agile pla…
Research insight - Shared malaria surveillance expertise has transformative effect on success of surveillance as a core intervention in moderate to high transmission settings
21 June 2022New research suggests that making use of practical experience can have a transformative effect on the success of malaria surveillance as a core intervention (SACI) in moderate to high malaria transmission countries. Malaria Consor…
WHO issue new guidelines on seasonal malaria chemoprevention implementation – our response
8 June 2022On 3 June 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued new malaria chemoprevention guidelines. While previous WHO policy recommendations provided specific guidance on how chemoprevention interventions should be implemented, th…
Scientific modelling for malaria policymaking
20 April 2022Researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Uganda National Malaria Control Division (NMCD) and Malaria Consortium have co-authored an opinion piece on future malaria modelling and policy shifts, w…
Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme awarded ‘top charity’ status by GiveWell for a sixth year running
26 November 2021Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce that our seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme has been awarded ‘top charity’ status by GiveWell for the sixth year in a row.
GiveWell, a US-based non-profit …
Malaria Consortium conducts first ever study to establish acceptability and feasibility of SMC outside the Sahel
22 September 2021Malaria Consortium researchers, in collaboration with the National Malaria Control Programme in Mozambique, have undertaken a phased implementation study in Nampula province to understand if seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) …
World Malaria Day 2021
25 April 2021Today marks the 15th annual World Malaria Day and provides an opportunity for the global community to reflect not only on the progress that’s been made but what more needs to be done – setting out where we need to focu…
Malaria Consortium to pilot seasonal malaria chemoprevention outside Sahel for first time
12 October 2020Mozambique’s Ministry of Health officials met with staff from Malaria Consortium at a kick off meeting to launch an exciting new research study that could see further gains made towards malaria elimination in the country.
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Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) and COVID-19
11 May 2020Protecting the world's most vulnerable people is crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic. The delivery of life saving health services must not be interrupted however, especially at community level, if we are to avoid an increase in d…
Malaria Consortium announces new malaria surveillance programme in Mozambique
31 July 2019London, 31 July 2019 – Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce the launch of a three-year project entitled “Strengthening malaria surveillance for data-driven decision making in Mozambique”.
The project, which…
Annual Review Meeting of the upSCALE platform in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique
1 November 2018More 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…
Putting surveillance at the heart of the fight against malaria in Mozambique
2 October 2018Malaria 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…
Expanding community-based mobile health (mHealth) in Mozambique
11 March 2018From 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…
Four million nets distributed in Mozambique
13 June 2017Malaria Consortium has successfully completed a mass distribution campaign of over four million long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) across Nampula and Niassa provinces in Mozambique. The nets were distributed almost simul…
Malaria Consortium Mozambique wins award for highly effective net distribution pilot
23 February 2017In February 2017, Malaria Consortium was invited to the Alliance for Malaria Prevention’s (AMP) annual partners meeting in Geneva to share lessons learnt from a net distribution pilot project in Mozambique. The pilot impleme…
Photo story: bringing healthcare to under-fives in rural Mozambique
7 July 2016Mozambique 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…
COMDIS-HSD annual review highlights 2015 achievements
19 January 2016COMDIS-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…
World Malaria Day around the world - in pictures
30 April 2015World Malaria Day is an international event that brings people together from around the globe to unite in the fight against malaria. Malaria Consortium has offices in Africa and Asia which commemorate April 25th by holding a varie…
Tackling neglected tropical diseases within the community
24 September 2014Structured discussions known as community dialogues are being used in communities in Mozambique as a way of improving health-seeking behaviours and knowledge surrounding schistosomiasis – one of the most widespread and harmf…