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Blog :Pioneering solutions for community health: Africa's trailblazers
Many countries in Africa have grappled with significant challenges in providing accessible and quality healthcare to their populations due to insufficient infrastructure, shortages of medical…
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Photo story :Photo story: Global efforts to end malaria boosted on World Malaria Day
In April 2024, Malaria Consortium collaborated with stakeholders around the world to mark World Malaria Day, reinforcing the urgent need to eliminate this deadly disease. Malaria continues to pose a…
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UK urged to address global health inequity exacerbated by COVID-19
The UK Government has historically played a leading role in its commitment to reducing the global burden of disease and strengthening health systems to provide equitable access to healthcare.…
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Thought leadership :World Immunisation Week: Reflecting on achievements, innovating for the future
As World Immunization Week comes to a close, I am taking a moment to reflect on the remarkable progress made in global health thanks to vaccines. Since the launch of the Expanded Programme on…
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Story :World Malaria Day 2024: Young people engaged through antimalaria school clubs as agents of change in malaria control
Despite being preventable and treatable, malaria threatens the lives of 3.2 billion people around the world. Every year, the disease accounts for hundreds of thousands of deaths, the majority of…
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Thought leadership :How can we achieve a malaria-free world?
This blog was written collaboratively by Shana Warren, Associate Director of Path-to-Scale Research & Research Scientist at Innovations for Poverty Action, a research and policy NGO, and…
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Time for business unusual: Can philanthropy be the catalyst required to achieve malaria elimination?
A child dies almost every minute from malaria. While huge gains have been made in recent history in reducing the burden of malaria — with deaths falling by 50 percent between 2000 and 2015 — progress…
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Story :San's story: A tailored approach to detecting the last malaria cases in Cambodia
In Cambodia, a community network of mobile malaria workers (MMWs) is reaching unreached communities with essential malaria services. They are supporting the government’s aim to eliminate all…
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Thought leadership :Re-evaluating approaches to malaria elimination in Africa: Prioritising partnerships for progress
With over 20 years’ experience in healthcare delivery, public health and operational research on communicable diseases in Africa and Asia, I recognise the inherent complexity of malaria. The disease…
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Story :Fatema's story: Shifting gender-biased norms in Bangladesh with a community dialogue approach
In Bangladesh, community engagement interventions are empowering women to address the contextual drivers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) — the development of resistance by bacteria to commonly used…
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Blog :International Women's Day 2024: Seven ways to make health programmes gender intentional
To successfully reduce the gender equity gap in healthcare, we need to be gender intentional in our health programming. This means identifying and understanding gender inequalities, gender-based…
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Our third year as an Independent Research Organisation: Using research to respond to health inequities and emerging threats
According to the World Health Organization’s State of Inequality: HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2021), diseases including malaria continue to take a disproportionally large toll on marginalised…
