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Blog :Happy anniversary, PMI
This week, the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) celebrates its 15 years at the forefront of the global fight against malaria. We are proud to have worked in partnership with PMI during this time…
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Blog :Floods in Uganda underline the need for climate resilience
Kachanga is a small settlement on the Ugandan banks of Lake Victoria. It is populated by fishermen and their families for whom the lake provides their livelihood. But in May, following huge…
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Blog :New town hall meetings in Nigeria lead to concrete commitments on malaria funding
Jigawa state sits at the heart of northern Nigeria, the region of the country most severely affected by malaria. Back in March, before the COVID-19 lockdown took hold, the first of a new kind of…
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Blog :Innovating and adapting during COVID-19
By some accounts, we may currently be living through a once-in-a-century pandemic. Whether or not this turns out to be true, the sheer scale of the global response attests to these being…
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Insights from a remote scoping and validation exercise: digitalising seasonal malaria chemoprevention
Malaria Consortium is working with Akros and the Reveal platform to digitalise SMC (Photo credit: Akros) Since 2013, Malaria Consortium has led the distribution of seasonal malaria chemoprevention…
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Blog :Will a vaccine end the fight against malaria?
There were 386,000 malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa in 2018, and projections suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause that number to double — to 769,000 deaths — owing to a lack of access…
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Story :From the field: 'The village health volunteer is a hero'
Edisa Natukunda is a 29-year-old woman with eight biological children, including a set of twins. We visited her home in Rwensenene in western Uganda in the company of her local village health team…
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Blog :Keeping SMC beneficiaries and distributors safe during COVID-19
The distribution of drugs for seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is an essential health service for the prevention of malaria. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are working to adapt our plans…
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Story :Imelda's story: From tragedy to a healthy future
Just off the Masaka to Kampala road lies Kyamuyimbwa, a town of 22,000. Imelda’s house sits along the main road, right in the middle of town. The road is busy and so when we arrive to speak to Imelda…
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Blog :Our statement on COVID-19 and SMC
This is a previous statement related to Malaria Consortium's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. See our latest statement on COVID-19 and SMC. Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is an essential…
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Blog :Lessons from Ouagadougou: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in urban contexts
Since 2013, Malaria Consortium has been a leader in implementing seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) in the Sahel. In Burkina Faso, we have been working with the government and implementing…
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Blog :Malaria poses a serious risk to pregnant women. What can be done to protect them?
Malaria in pregnancy is a serious public health issue. It kills an estimated 10,000 women globally every year, and substantially raises the risk of premature birth, anaemia and low birth weight — all…
