716 items related to 'Community delivery'
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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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completedProgramme Cooperation Agreement with Government of Uganda
The ICCM Central Project reduced under five child mortality by supporting the implementation of an effective and replicable community based treatment system for childhood malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea…
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completedSupport to National Malaria Programme (SuNMaP)
The Support to National Malaria Programme (SuNMaP) aims to assist the Nigerian government in malaria prevention and treatment through improvements in capacity, project planning and coordination, drug…
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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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Resources: Journal article :
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…
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Resources: Poster :
Equity in uptake of diarrhoea and pneumonia treatment in a community case management program in Uganda
This poster is one of a series of presentations for the 62nd ASTMH Annual Meeting. It assesses if there were any changes in uptake of recommended first line treatment for diarrhoea and pneumonia…
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Resources: Learning paper :
Integrating severe acute malnutrition into the management of childhood diseases at community level in South Sudan
Since December 2010, Malaria Consortium has been implementing an innovative approach to community management of severe acute malnutrition, together with an existing integrated community case…
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Resources: Project brief :
Rapid Access Expansion 2015 (RAcE 2015)
This brief descirbes the project RAcE 2015 which aims to improve access to and the quality of community-level management of childhood malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea in Niger state, Nigeria,…
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Resources: Project brief :
iCCM guidelines and implementation framework
This brief describes a project to support the development of a decision tree for use by the Nigerian government and implementation partners in the roll-out of integrated community case management for…
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Resources: Journal article :
Perceived quality of care for common childhood illnesses: Facility versus community based providers in Uganda
Quality of care provided by community health workers is perceived to be higher than that of primary health facility workers in Uganda.