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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,…
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Improving nutrition in Nigeria by breaking down barriers for health workers
Malnutrition contributes to nearly half of all deaths of children under five in Nigeria. Patients in rural areas often struggle to access treatment, as health facilities are difficult for them to…
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We must wake up to the dengue threat – and the other diseases lining up behind
Sweat glistens on the skin of the 24-year-old Jeanine. Here and there it coalesces into tiny rivulets that trickle and drip onto the bedsheets. A high fever rages inside her, accompanied by a…
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It’s time for a World Dengue Day. Here’s why.
At 390 million cases per year, dengue is the world’s fastest-growing disease. This has rocketed from only 15,000 cases in 1960. Countries in Asia are most affected by the disease and mark their…
