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Blog :The world’s first dedicated global pneumonia event
‘It is overwhelmingly clear that, without a breakthrough on pneumonia, the 2030 goal of ending preventable child deaths will never be achieved.’There was a landmark event for pneumonia last week: the…
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Blog :Our hopes for global health in 2020
As we enter a new decade and the long run to the finish line of the Sustainable Development Goals, we asked colleagues from around our organisation about what they felt are some of the biggest issues…
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Blog :Our top 5 blogs of 2019
Like most years, 2019 has been a busy one for Malaria Consortium. We’ve launched new projects and conducted another successful seasonal malaria chemoprevention distribution programme reaching six…
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Blog :Our top 5 publications of 2019
We have published almost 50 new publications across Malaria Consortium’s areas of work this year. From research studies to implementation briefs, our top five publications of the year provide a…
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Q&A :Q&A with Rilwanu Mohammed, SMC Project Manager in Sokoto, Nigeria
Rilwanu with a team of SMC distributorsWe interviewed Rilwanu Mohammed, one of Malaria Consortium’s Project Managers on our seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme in the Sahel region. He spoke…
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Blog :A new online portal for vector biologists
Dr Paul Russell, a malaria specialist who served in the Second World War, once said: "Man ploughs the sea like a leviathan, he soars through the air like an eagle; his voice circles the world in a…
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Blog :Training entomologists to tackle malaria in Asia Pacific
The Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network, in partnership with Kasetsart University, ran the 2nd International Training Course on Malaria Vector Surveillance for Elimination (MVSE) from 29…
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Blog :Integrating birth notification into South Sudan’s community-based primary healthcare
Birth registration rates in South Sudan are low: only 35 percent of children under five are currently registered with the government. Without a birth certificate, children may not be able to register…
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Blog :Celebrating our Dr Sylvia Meek scholars: Funmilayo Ogunkomaya
We are celebrating the achievements of Malaria Consortium’s Dr Sylvia Meek scholars, who have benefited from a scholarship fund set up in 2016 to honour the memory of one of our co-founders. Since…
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Blog :Counting breaths: an assessment of automated respiratory rate timers
Community health workers across the world currently use respiratory rate as a proxy sign for pneumonia. But this technique is far from ideal.Literature from Ethiopia has shown that manually counting…
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What is a breath? Findings from our BREATHE study
What is a breath? Pneumonia is one of the biggest killers in the world. Every year, it causes the death of more than 800,000 children under five – taking a life every 39 seconds. Yet simply by…
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Blog :Four posters, one project: MAPD at ASTMH 2019
Malaria Consortium is presenting four posters on one project at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting in Maryland this year. So what is the project, and what…
