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Meet the members of a community health committee in Inhambane Province of Mozambique
Felismina lives in Inharrime, a region in southern Mozambique. She has been a member of her community’s health committee since 2013. “The committee meets twice a month: once with the whole community,…
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World Malaria Day in Bangladesh
In late April 2016, I spent World Malaria Day in Bangladesh after being invited by the Director of Communicable Disease Control, Dr Shamsuzzaman of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.…
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Dressing for malaria: testing insecticide treated clothing
According to the recent World Malaria Report 2015, around 234 million people are at high risk of malaria in Southeast Asia. The region accounted for 10 percent of global malaria cases and seven…
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Targeting mosquito larvae through Integrated Vector Management
Malaria Consortium is piloting a project on integrated vector management to assess the effectiveness of various control strategies to prevent the transmission of dengue. The study is being conducted…
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Preventing malaria transmission through the cross border surveillance
At the international border checkpoints between Cambodia and Laos, Stung Treng Province, a green booth with various messages inviting people to participate in the malaria surveillance and…
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Laying the groundwork for a successful field evaluation of the pneumonia diagnostics project
As Programme Coordinator for Malaria Consortium’s pneumonia diagnostics project, I visited Uganda last week to see the preparations underway for the final stage of the project: the field evaluation.…
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Field evaluation for pneumonia diagnostic tools kicks off in South Sudan
As Programme Coordinator for Malaria Consortium’s pneumonia diagnostics project, I visited South Sudan last month to oversee the start of field evaluations in the country. The field evaluation is the…
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Presenting our pneumonia diagnostics work at the annual ASTMH meeting
Our pneumonia diagnostics team held a number of interesting sessions at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) in Philadelphia from 25-29 October, 2015. These sessions covered…
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Reducing the risk of malaria in pregnancy in Uganda – observations from the field
Alany and Majole are South Sudanese women living in refugee camps in West Nile province, Northern Uganda. Both are pregnant. I met Alany and Majole as I travelled to a rural health facility, where…
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Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Burkina Faso: Feedback from the field
Malaria Consortium talks to Community Health Worker (CHW), Ipala Zidwemba, about his experience of administering SMC in the rural district of Boulsa, Burkina Faso. “The CHWs are the people who bring…
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Empowering village malaria workers in Cambodia: Prevention and control of malaria
Standing under the shade of a cassava barn is Khem Bou, a 17-year-old mother of two from Kampong Cham province. Every day she sleeps with her children on a makeshift bed made of wooden planks, but…
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Malaria is one of the ‘best buys’ in Global Health
Op-ed by Dr James Tibenderana, Malaria Consortium Development Director, on the launch of two new malaria strategies At this week’s 3rd International Financing for Development meeting in Addis Ababa,…
