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Preventing malaria through drama and performance
“Our main purpose is to educate communities about malaria - its effects, how it is transmitted and how to avoid it.” Mugoya Muzamir is one of over two thousand community members in Mbale who has been…
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Providing mosquito nets for families through school distributions
“When the rainy season comes, our children fall sick because of the weather. It’s malaria, flu, cough – even measles. It affects us because they miss lessons, and they can’t always catch up when they…
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Barriers to IPTp uptake in Uganda
Pregnant women are particularly susceptible to malaria partly because of their reduced immunity to the disease, but also because of their vulnerable social and economic status. Their unborn babies…
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Agente Polivalente Elementar overcomes tragedy by helping her community
Caterina Cumbi, a community health worker or Agente Polivalente Elementar (APE) makes a check-up visit to three-year-old Beldencio who tested positive for malaria three days ago; in Jogo,…
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Before, we had no way to prevent malaria. Now the nets protect the whole family
It's the second week of August in Lichinga, Niassa Province in northern Mozambique – not far from the Malawi and Tanzania borders. It is a cold and wintery month with grey skies. After about two…
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Malaria Consortium Cambodia awarded the Certificate of Merit for work with government
Mr. Lim Kim Seng, Malaria Consortium Pailin Field Office Coordinator received the award from HE. Dr. Te Kuy Seang, the Secretary of State of Cambodia. Malaria Consortium was awarded a Certificate of…
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Supportive supervision: improving the quality of community health services
Community health workers, when trained and equipped to manage simple cases of pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria in children under the age of five, can reduce child mortality caused by these three…
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European Year for Development launches amidst growing public support for aid
2015 is set to be an important – and hopefully transformational – year for international development. Over the next 12 months countries around the world will come together to agree the development…
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Helping to fight malaria with positive deviance volunteers
Wanweena Tangsathianraphap, External Communications Officer for the Asia region, visited Ratchaburi province in Thailand to report on Malaria Consortium's Positive Deviance project. At the…
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Malaria Consortium's behaviour change communication project
Monica Posada is Malaria Consortium’s behaviour change communication (BCC) technical specialist for the Asia region. She recently visited Cambodia in order to conduct research into behaviour change…
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Preventing the number one infectious cause of death in children
November 12th is World Pneumonia Day. To mark this occasion, Malaria Consortium interviewed Dr Phanuel Habimana, adviser on child and adolescent health for the World Health Organisation’s Africa…
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Community health? There’s an app for that
In recent years, there has been a rapid proliferation of mobile phone applications. There seems to be one for everything, from daily reminders to complex navigation. But while most of us don’t think…
