501 Publications items related to 'Community delivery'
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Resources: Learning paper :
Community dialogues for healthy children: encouraging communities to talk
Integrated community case management (ICCM) – an approach where community-based health workers are trained to identify, treat and refer children under-five with pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria – is…
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Resources: Case study :
Mozambique: Training community health workers to save lives
Research Officer Abel Muimbo and Communications Specialist Nilda de Lima Santos from Malaria Consortium Mozambique find out about the training of community health workers in Inhambane Province and…
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Resources: Case study :
Mozambique: Community health workers provide care to remote communities
Dirce Costa, Malaria Consortium’s Malaria Prevention and Control Project Coordinator, and Romeo Carlos from International Relief & Development, interview Felizarda Eugénio on access to health…
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Mozambique: A community leader's perspective on the impact of community health workers
Fenias Angelo Benhane, Project Officer at Malaria Consortium Mozambique, interviews Augusto Edi Guivala, a community leader in Lindela, Inhambane province. Available in Portuguese.
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Resources: Project report :
Evaluation of community- and health facility-based systems for the surveillance of cases of day-3 positive Plasmodium falciparum in Cambodia
This report is an external evaluation of Malaria Consortium's community- and health facility-based surveillance systems, whose aim was to monitor day-3 positive P. falciparum cases in Cambodia.
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Resources: Project brief :
South Sudan: Community-based LLIN Continuous Distribution Pilot
This is a project brief on Malaria Consortium's pilot project to establish a community-based continuous distribution system of long lasting insecticide nets (LLINs) in South Sudan.
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Resources: Journal article :
Can lay community health workers be trained to use diagnostics to distinguish and treat malaria and pneumonia in children? Lessons from rural Uganda
This study sought to determine the competence of community health workers in Uganda to correctly assess, classify and treat malaria and pneumonia among under-five children after training.
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Resources: Journal article :
The cost of antibiotic mass drug administration for trachoma control in a remote area of South Sudan
To inform budgeting to scale up control of trachoma and other NTDs relying on large-scale mass drug administration, this study set out to determine the cost per person treated when antibiotics were…
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Resources: Journal article :
Performance of three multi-species rapid diagnostic tests for diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
This study compared three rapid diagnostic tests' performance, ease of use and heat stability to offer evidence to the Federal Ministry of Health for product selection.
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Resources: Journal article :
Community acceptability of use of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria by community health workers in Uganda
Abstract Many malarious countries plan to introduce artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) at community level using community health workers (CHWs) for treatment of uncomplicated malaria. Use of ACT…
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Access, acceptability and utilization of community health workers using diagnostics for case management of fever in Ugandan children: a cross-sectional study
Use of diagnostics in integrated community case management (iCCM) of fever is recognized as an important step in improving rational use of drugs and quality of care for febrile under-five children.…
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Resources: Technical brief :
inSCALE Village Health Clubs: Improving motivation and community health
This is a project brief on Malaria Consortium's work to motivate and support the work of Village Health Teams in Uganda through Village Health Club forums and meetings.
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Resources: Case study :
Zambia CLOVER Project: Zambulances
This case study provides details on Malaria Consortium's provision of 'Zambulances', a community-based bicycle ambulance system for rural areas in Zambia. The zambulance reduces transport time and…
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Resources: Project brief :
Mbale Malaria Control Project
This is a project brief describing the Mbale Malaria Control Project, which aims to contribute to the reduction of deaths in children due to malaria and other severe childhood illnesses through a…
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Resources: Project brief :
Pioneer Project
This is a project brief on Malaria Consortium's Pioneer Project, which aims to reduce malaria related morbidity and mortality in the target areas and to gain a deeper understanding of the most…
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Resources: Project brief :
Integrated Community Case Management
This is a project brief on Malaria Consortium's CIDA-funded Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) activities in Mozambique, South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia, which aimed to demonstrate…
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Resources: Project brief :
Community Health Worker Capacity Building
This is a project brief detailing Malaria Consortium's Community Health Worker (CHW) Capacity Building activities in Inhambane Province, Mozambique, which trained 100 CHWs to provide care to over…
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Resources: Case study :
Mozambique Miguel Tomas APE
A case study on a local Mozambican mechanic who became an agente polivalente elementar (APE), or a community health worker (CHW), with the national health ministry and Malaria Consortium's technical…
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Resources: Case study :
Mozambique Agita and Edson visit the Community Health Worker (Agente Polivalente Elementar-APE)
This case study outlines some of Malaria Consortium's work to provide technical support in training Community Health Workers and providing disease treatment and prevention in Mozambique.
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Resources: Case study :
Uganda Using Mobile Phones for ICCM
Malaria Consortium is piloting the use of mobile phone reporting systems to help beat childhood diseases in rural Uganda.