713 items related to 'Community delivery'
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Vote for Malaria Consortium in the 2018 Charity Film Awards
A film documenting Malaria Consortium’s iCCM-MaCS project in southern Uganda has been nominated in the Charity Film Awards. It is the latest in a line of Malaria Consortium films to be submitted to…
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Resources: Presentation :
A qualitative assessment of community health committees' participation, with and without community dialogues
In an effort to reduce child mortality, countries are increasingly adopting the integrated community case management (iCCM) strategy for childhood illnesses. For iCCM to be successful, community…
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Expanding the health system into the forest: Analysis of and response to the challenge of providing malaria services inside forest areas within the Greater Mekong Subregion in the context of malaria elimination
Malaria incidence in Cambodia is decreasing and transmission is increasingly confined to forest areas. However, nearly all prevention and treatment funds are being invested in villages far from…
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Qualitative assessment to understand community's acceptance, preferences and sustainability of guppy fish (Poecilia reticulata), Pyriproxyfen (Sumilarv® 2MR), and community engagement for dengue control in Kampong Cham, Cambodia, 2016
Dengue is the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease in the world and Cambodia has one of the highest per-capita incidence rates in the region. Without a widely available vaccine or…
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Dengue knowledge, attitudes and practices and their impact on community-based vector control in rural Cambodia
The World Health Organization's global strategy for dengue prevention aims to reduce mortality rates by 50 percent and morbidity by 25 percent by 2020. The adoption of an integrated vector management…
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Resources: Project brief :
RISE for Nutrition
Malnutrition is a major public health concern in Nigeria and a contributing factor to nearly half of all child deaths in the country. The impact of malnutrition is exacerbated in Niger state, the…
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Resources: Poster :
Community case management of chest indrawing pneumonia with oral amoxicillin in children in Nigeria
Current recommendations advise community health workers to refer cases of chest indrawing pneumonia to health facilities for treatment, but many children die due to delays or non-compliance with…
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Can community health workers in Ethiopia correctly assess under-fives for symptoms of pneumonia using a new respiratory rate diagnostic aid?
The Acute Respiratory Infection Diagnostic Aid (ARIDA) acceptability study aims to understand if health extension workers in Ethiopia can correctly adhere to integrated community case management…
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Community engagement and mobilisation of local resources to support integrated community case management activities in Niger state, Nigeria
Despite strong evidence that integrated community case management (iCCM) can reduce childhood illness related morbidity and mortality, the sustainability of iCCM projects remains a challenge. From…
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Resources: Poster :
Giving malaria the boot
Uganda has one of the highest malaria infection rates in sub-Saharan Africa. Preventive interventions are available nationwide, but unengaged men (households’ core decision makers) remain key…
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The community dialogue approach: Lessons learnt from implementation in four countries
How diseases can be prevented, diagnosed and treated is sometimes misunderstood by affected communities, resulting in people getting sick more often and potentially not seeking timely or appropriate…
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The community dialogue approach: lessons learnt from implementation in four countries
Diseases and how they can be prevented, diagnosed and treated are sometimes misunderstood by affected communities. This means that people may get sick more often, and might not seek timely or…
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The community dialogue approach: lessons learnt from implementation in four countries
Diseases and how they can be prevented, diagnosed and treated are sometimes misunderstood by affected communities. This means that people may get sick more often, and might not seek timely or…
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Resources: Project brief :
Strengthening Uganda's response to malaria
The Strengthening Uganda’s Response to Malaria (SURMa) project aims to improve access to and uptake of high-quality malaria prevention and control services. Malaria Consortium, in partnership with…
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Resources: Insight brief :
Maternal and newborn care: Saving premature babies in Uganda
As part of the Integrated Community Case Management-Maternal and Child Survival (iCCM-MaCS) project, Malaria Consortium provided formal health facilities in Uganda with incubators and established the…
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Resources: Technical brief :
Domestic expenditure on health service delivery in low-income settings
To accelerate progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed to develop further their health financing systems. UHC is defined as…
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Impact: Malaria Consortium and seasonal malaria chemoprevention
Malaria Consortium has been distributing preventive treatments to children under five across the Sahel region to protect them from malaria during the past four rainy seasons. Case-control studies…
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Evaluation of community-based continuous distribution of long lasting insecticide-treated nets in Toamasina II District, Madagascar
Background Continuous distribution of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) is thought to be an effective mechanism to maintain ITN ownership and access between or in the absence of mass campaigns, but…
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Evaluation of a continuous community-based insecticide-treated nets distribution pilot in Lainya County, South Sudan 2012–2013
Background Continuous distribution of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) has now been accepted as one way of sustaining ITN universal coverage. Community-based channels offer an interesting means of…
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Human and Simian Malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion and Challenges for Elimination
In recent years malaria initiatives have increasingly shifted from malaria control to a focus on achieving malaria elimination in the Southeast Asia region. However, this region experiences unique…