716 items related to 'Community delivery'
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Resources: Training materials :
Malaria control in humanitarian emergencies – an inter-agency field handbook
The interagency field handbook was developed to set out effective malaria control responses in humanitarian emergencies, particularly during the acute phase when reliance on international…
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Resources: Project brief :
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Northern Nigeria
The project aims to improve child health in Katsina state through increased access to seasonal malaria chemoprevention using community-based delivery systems, and assessing its feasibility for scale…
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Resources: Project brief :
Regional Integrated Vector Management Project
An initiative to assess and strengthen the ability of the community and health systems to better prevent the spread of vector-borne diseases and to improve recognition of symptoms and identification…
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Resources: Journal article :
Community health workers use malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) safely and accurately: Results of a longitudinal study in Zambia
Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) could radically improve febrile illness management in remote and low-resource populations. However, reliance upon community health workers (CHWs) remains…
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Resources: Journal article :
Mobile health (mHealth) approaches and lessons for increased performance and retention of community health workers in low-and middle-income countries: A review
This study conducted a thematic review of how mHealth projects have approached the intersection of cellular technology and public health in low- and middle-income countries.
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Resources: Project brief :
Uganda: ICCM Central
This project in Uganda's Central region aims to reduce under five child mortality and improve maternal and newborn health through the provision of integrated community case management.
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Resources: Project brief :
Mozambique: Strengthening and improving a national ICCM programme
This project brief describes efforts to work with the Mozambique government to reduce child mortality and halve the malaria burden in Inhambane province through Integrated Community Case Management.
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Resources: Presentation :
Community Case Management of Pneumonia in Zambia: Factors Which Determine Rational Use of Antibiotics
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Resources: Briefing note :
Malaria intervention
This briefing note provides background to the introduction of an intervention designed to prevent illness and death from malaria among young children during peak transmission season.
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Resources: Project brief :
South Sudan: Addressing emergency nutritional needs in young children
This project brief outlines the aim to reduce under-five mortality and morbidity by providing malnourished children with treatment for severe acute malnutrition as well as underlying infectious…
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Resources: Project brief :
South Sudan: Integrated Community Case Management
This project brief outlines the aim to improve child survival in children under five years by increasing access to prompt and effective treatment of common childhood illnesses including malaria,…
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Resources: Project brief :
inSCALE Project Brief
This is a project brief on the inSCALE Project and its aim to increase coverage of integrated community case management, which provides community-based care for diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria.
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Resources: Project brief :
Comparing iCCM in Rural and Peri-Urban Villages in Uganda
This is a project brief outlining aims to inform decision making on whether or not the integrated community case management (iCCM) strategy should be tailored differently in rural and peri-urban…
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Resources: Project brief :
A study of community management of pneumonia in Zambia
This project aims to provide evidence on the rational use of antibiotics at the community health worker and caregiver levels. It also intends to give an indication of the extent to which integrated…
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Resources: Learning paper :
Developing and implementing training materials for integrated community case management in South Sudan
In South Sudan, ICCM – or integrated community case management – is carried out by trained community volunteers called community drug distributors (CDDs) or community based distributors. These…
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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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Resources: Case study :
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.