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Recognising community health workers this World Health Day and World Health Worker Week
To mark the fourth annual World Health Worker Week as well as World Health Day on Friday 7, this article reflects on global health care and recognises the important work community health workers…
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Good health for all: a crucial road to gender equality
By 2030, we will ‘achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’: these are the words used by global leaders to coin Goal 5 of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Today, 8th…
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Technology to save children’s lives
Mobile health coverage is expanding in Mozambique. Following a successful pilot in a few districts of Inhambane province, the Ministry of Health, in partnership with Malaria Consortium and UNICEF,…
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Voices for better health: Mozambique
A large scale long lasting insecticide-treated net (LLIN) campaign was officially launched by President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi in November last year in an effort to reduce malaria in Mozambique. Many…
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Top five moments of 2016
At Malaria Consortium we continued to work towards achieving our mission throughout 2016. With the support of our donors, partners and collaborators, we helped to improve lives in Africa and Asia…
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Uncovering Asian tropical medicine - JITMM 2016
By Kyaw Thura Tun The Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting 2016 (JITMM) took place this December with the theme ‘Uncover Asian tropical medicine’. The event was a great success, attracting…
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Meet the recipients of Mozambique's largest ever mosquito net distribution
By Dorca Nhaca On 3rd November 2016 the Ministry of Health, Mozambique, launched the largest ever distribution of mosquito nets. In total over 13 million long lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLIN)…
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Exciting times for new pneumonia diagnostic tools
This year’s ASTMH saw a number of key sessions and presentations that highlighted the exciting work being done to evaluate the performance of new pneumonia diagnostic aids at the community…
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Using community dialogues to prevent and control NTDs
By Eder Ismael Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) constitute a serious obstacle to socio-economic development, quality of life and reducing poverty. In Mozambique, NTD rates are extremely high; the…
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Malaria Consortium in Nigeria: reflections from a new Trustee
My name is Mark Clark and I recently joined the Board of Trustees of Malaria Consortium. My interest in tropical diseases stretches back to a formative summer placement in the early 1980s as a…
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MC in the news: Dengue
Last week Malaria Consortium Myanmar was in the news with a story about dengue. We worked with Oliver Slow, a journalist to talk about our work and the dengue situation in the country. The story…
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Dr Sylvia Meek’s contribution to malaria elimination in Asia
It is with deep sorrow that Malaria Consortium must announce the passing of Dr Sylvia Meek, Malaria Consortium’s Global Technical Director, on 11th May 2016, after an 18-month battle with…
