713 items related to 'Community delivery'
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Impact of an integrated community case management programme on uptake of appropriate diarrhoea and pneumonia treatments in Uganda: A propensity score matching and equity analysis study
IntroductionFollowing introduction of iCCM, data from cross-sectional household surveys were examined for socioeconomic inequalities in uptake of treatment and use of iCCM among children with a…
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Valuing the work of unpaid community health workers and exploring the incentives to volunteering in rural Africa
Abstract Community health worker (CHW) programmes are currently being scaled-up in sub-Saharan Africa to improve access to healthcare. CHWs are often volunteers; from an economic perspective, this…
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How Uganda tackles pneumonia, the world's #1 infectious killer
In Uganda, Malaria Consortium is working with the government and partners to improve child health through better diagnosis and treatment for pneumonia. Learn more about our work in integrated…
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The Pneumonia Diagnostics Project: improving pneumonia diagnosis in the community
The Pneumonia Diagnostics Project is working to identify the most accurate and acceptable devices for use by frontline health workers in remote settings in Cambodia, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Uganda.
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Integrated community case management in Kebbi and Niger states
The integrated community case management project aims to provide malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia curative services for children under five by community health volunteers in the most marginalised and…
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Establishing Village Health Clubs to improve community health worker motivation and performance
Malaria Consortium’s inSCALE project has been supporting the scale-up of quality integrated community case management programmes to improve child health in Uganda. This paper details the process of…
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Malaria Consortium presents at the 2015 ASTMH Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
This week, Malaria Consortium is presenting at the 64th annual meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) in Philadelphia. Our symposiums and interactive presentations…
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Targeting malaria infection and artemisinin resistance at formal and informal border points on the Cambodia-Laos border
This study will estimate the impact of migrant populations on the spread of malaria and artemisinin resistance in the Greater Mekong Subregion, especially along the Cambodia-Laos border. The project…
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Introducing seasonal malaria chemoprevention
The majority of malaria related deaths worldwide occur in Sub-Saharan Africa, with children under five at greatest risk. For the 25 million children living across the Sahel, where there is a seasonal…
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High prevalence of antibiotic resistance in nasopharyngeal bacterial isolates from healthy children in rural Uganda: A cross-sectional study
Background In Uganda, the main causes of death in children under 5 years of age are malaria and pneumonia-often due to delayed diagnosis and treatment. In preparation for a community case management…
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Evaluation of integrated community case management in eight districts of central Uganda
Objective Evidence is limited on whether Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) improves treatment coverage of the top causes of childhood mortality (acute respiratory illnesses (ARI), diarrhoea…
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Estimating the cost of referral and willingness to pay for referral to higher-level health facilities: a case series study from an integrated community case management programme in Uganda
Background Integrated community case management relies on community health workers managing children with malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea, and referring children when management is not possible. This…
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Uganda sees huge scale-up of intervention targeting three main childhood diseases
Sheema, Uganda, 25 August 2015 – Today, the Ugandan President Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni launched a new Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) programme funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,…
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Making connections: The Mbale malaria control project strengthens links between communities and health systems to reduce child deaths
This report showcases the impact of our Mbale malaria control project through the voices of implementers and beneficiaries. The project ran between 2011 and 2015, and aimed to contribute to the…
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SMC distributions, Boulsa, Burkina Faso
Here a Community Health Worker leads the supervision team to witness the SMC distributions in the outskirts of Boulsa.
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Potential roles of mhealth for community health workers: Formative research with end users in Uganda and Mozambique
Background Community health workers are reemerging as an essential component of health systems in low-income countries. However, there are concerns that unless they are adequately supported, their…
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Integrated community-based interventions for malaria services
The Integrated Community-based Interventions for Malaria Services project aims to bridge the gaps in community-level health service delivery in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples'…
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Village malaria worker project: Prevention and control of malaria
This project aims to improve the malaria implementation programme in western Cambodia — a key location for managing resistant malaria parasites — and to strengthen the community health network in 68…
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Malaria and the mobile and migrant population in Cambodia: A population movement framework to inform strategies for malaria control and elimination
Background The relationships between human population movement (HPM) and health are a concern at global level. In the case of malaria, those links are crucial in relation to the spread of drug…
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Changing behaviour through drama
The Mbale Malaria Control Project was a three year project launched in March 2012 that was focused on reducing deaths from and the incidence of severe childhood malaria. The project achieved this by…