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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…
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Female community health workers key in improving child survival in South Sudan
The Republic of South Sudan has one of the highest under‐five mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa: 96 per 1,000 live births in 2017. Preventable illnesses such as pneumonia, malaria and diarrhoea…
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Dust, rain, shocks and power: overcoming mobile health equipment challenges
Mozambique’s health challenges are immense: over one third of under-five deaths are attributable to pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria. In 2017, the country had the third highest malaria burden…
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A step-by-step guide to distributing anti-malaria drugs to six million children
The moment a community distributor gives a cup of life-saving malaria medicine to each of six million children across the Sahel region this year, it marks the finish line of a long and winding road…
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Q&A with Barnabé Zongo, field officer in Burkina Faso
We spoke with Barnabé Zongo, a field officer for Malaria Consortium in Burkina Faso, about his experience of preparing for and supervising the delivery of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC)…
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Celebrating our Dr Sylvia Meek scholars: Amos Watentena
We’re celebrating the achievements of Malaria Consortium’s Dr Sylvia Meek scholars. The scholarship fund was set up in 2016 following the death of Dr Sylvia Meek, one of the organisation’s…
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Achieving Malaria Consortium’s mission through rigorous research
When Malaria Consortium formed as an NGO in 2003 there was no ambition to duplicate the work of other organisations working in the sector, but instead to address a gap that had emerged: the absence…
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The school fighting malaria
Kyotera Primary's Head Boy, Clovis We’re greeted at Kyotera Primary School by head boy Clovis. He is ready to show us the work his school is doing to equip its pupils with the knowledge and skills…
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We must work together to fight antimicrobial resistance
Imagine you are a chicken farmer, living in a remote village in Southeast Asia. When you visit the local pharmacist, he tells you he has a drug that must be given at intervals to your chickens, to…
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Q&A with Christian Rassi, Malaria Consortium’s SMC programme director
Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaign has just begun across three countries in the Sahel region of Africa: Burkina Faso, Chad and Nigeria. Between July and October,…
