501 Publications items related to 'Community delivery'
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Resources: Presentation :
Designing sustainable and scalable mHealth interventions to improve community health worker motivation and retention in Uganda and Mozambique: the use of formative research
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Resources: Presentation :
Developing and implementing interventions to improve community health worker motivation and performance
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Resources: Technical brief :
Improving access to quality care in Uganda
This Briefing Note describes a baseline and an endline survey conducted by Malaria Consortium to measure the impact of iCCM on improving health seeking behaviour and access to treatment for children…
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Resources: Learning paper :
Integrating mRDTs into the health system in Uganda: Preparing health workers for routine use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests
In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) changed its guidelines to state that all suspected malaria cases should be tested for the presence of malaria parasites by microscopy or malaria rapid…
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Resources: Technical brief :
Neglected tropical diseases: A holistic vision for disease elimination
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect over 1.4 billion people worldwide and cause half a million deaths each year. They also cause chronic disability, stigma and ill health, disproportionally…
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Fostering a culture of malaria control in Uganda
This project brief describes a Malaria Consortium project in Tororo district, Uganda, which aims to reduce malaria mortality and morbidity by fostering a culture of malaria control at community and…
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Resources: Learning paper :
Implementing integrated community case management: stakeholder experiences and lessons learned in three African countries
Malaria Consortium’s involvement in iCCM has spanned inputs to facilitate policy development, project design, implementation from start-up phase; ongoing support to the public health system in…
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Resources: Learning paper :
It’s all in the detail: developing effective health-related job aids
Malaria Consortium has had extensive experience designing, developing, implementing and evaluating a variety of job aids. An integral part of our work is to strengthen capacity and improve the…
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Resources: Presentation :
Malaria Consortium at 10: Linking the community to health systems
Malaria Consortium was founded in 2003 by a small team of people with a vision - to build the capacity of malaria-endemic countries worldwide to deal with a common and treatable disease that was…
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Resources: Annual review :
Malaria Consortium 2003-2013: a decade in communicable disease control and child health
Malaria Consortium was founded in 2003 by a small team of people with a vision - to build the capacity of malaria-endemic countries worldwide to deal with a common and treatable disease that was…
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Resources: Project brief :
Improved tools for the measurement of respiratory rate and oxygen saturation for the detection of signs of pneumonia
This project aims to identify the most accurate, acceptable, scalable and user-friendly respiratory rate timers and pulse oximeters for the detection of pneumonia symptoms in children by community…
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Resources: Technical brief :
Sustainable coverage of LLINs in Uganda
This Briefing Note describes Malaria Consortium's support to the Ministry of Health through the Pioneer project to distribute LLINs in four districts of Mid-Western Uganda in 2009-2010. It dicusses…
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Resources: Journal article :
Introduction of Newborn Care within Integrated Community Case Management in Uganda
Uganda’s Ministry of Health, together with partners, has introduced integrated community case management(iCCM) for children under 5 years. We assessed how the iCCM program addresses newborn care in…
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Interventions to Improve Motivation and Retention of Community Health Workers Delivering Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM): Stakeholder Perceptions and Priorities
Abstract Despite resurgence in the use of community health workers (CHWs) in the delivery of community case management of childhood illnesses, a paucity of evidence for effective strategies to…
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Resources: Journal article :
Integrated community case management of fever in children under five using rapid diagnostic tests and respiratory rate counting: A multi-country cluster randomized trial
This effectiveness trial, conducted in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda, compared a diagnostic and treatment package for malaria and pneumonia with presumptive treatment with antimalarial drugs.
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Resources: Journal article :
Community acceptability and adoption of integrated community case management in Uganda
Integrated community case management programmes require community sensitisation and targeted health systems strengthening to functioning optimally and enhance benefits such as reduced child mortality.
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Resources: Training materials :
A guide for trainers of VHTs: participatory approach to improve child health through village health clubs
Village health teams (VHTs) can play an important role in reducing the number of child deaths in Ugandan communities. In order to achieve this, they need to be properly trained, supported and…
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Resources: Presentation :
The blended learning framework for behaviour change
Community health workers (CHWs) fill an important human resource gap and operate at scale to provide health education/promotion and deliver integrated community case management. This presentation…
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Resources: Project brief :
Positive deviance pilot
This project brief describes a study to pilot an innovative positive deviance approach in order to increase health knowledge and improve attitudes and practice around malaria in high-risk communities…
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Resources: Project report :
Strategy to address migrant and mobile populations for malaria elimination in Cambodia
In order to support the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control (CNM) to ensure successful accomplishment the goals of the National Malaria Elimination Strategy 2025, the aim…