66 Blog items related to 'Community delivery'
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One visit, many lives saved: How to fight malaria smarter
This World Immunisation Week, Malaria Consortium is highlighting how our integrated service delivery approach is helping us reach more children with more interventions — without proportionally…
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How transforming a health post revived trust in local healthcare
In Pooro state in Nigeria, a dilapidated health facility was brought back to life by the combined efforts of Malaria Consortium and the local community, restoring healthcare to the people of Pooro.
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When conflict strikes, the threat of malaria follows
When conflict forces people from their homes, the protections that keep deadly diseases like malaria at bay are compromised. Malaria Consortium is working across conflict-affected countries such as…
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The women keeping their village healthy in Ethiopia
In a village in southern Ethiopia, meet the health workers and village leaders on the front lines of the fight against malaria's resurgence in the country.
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Photo story: Beyond the last mile: Protecting Cambodia’s mobile communities from malaria
In rural Cambodia, where communities are often hard to reach and move around for seasonal work, we’re training local volunteers and deploying mobile workers to provide access to life‑saving malaria…
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The power of community support in times of conflict
During times of conflict, access to healthcare is sometimes one of the first basic needs to go unmet. The consequences of humanitarian crises include severe disruptions to healthcare, such as acute…
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Integrating health services to save lives: Strengthening child survival through seasonal malaria chemoprevention
How can we build on the success of seasonal malaria chemoprevention?Over the past decade, global efforts to reduce malaria incidence have stalled, largely due to inadequate funding, disruptions from…
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Photo story: Sharing lessons from Cambodia on the malaria elimination journey
From 17 to 21 March 2024, national malaria programme representatives from 11 African and Middle Eastern countries embarked on an insightful learning exchange to Cambodia, united in their commitment…
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Q&A with our experts: SDG 3 progress on maternal and child health
The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) took place in New York from 8 to 17 July 2024. This annual gathering brought together world leaders, policymakers and stakeholders to…
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Zaida's story: The digital app making it easier to deliver healthcare to her community
In the Morrumbene district of Mozambique, Zaida, a community health worker — known locally as an agente polivalente de saúde or APS for short — is on the frontlines of improving access to healthcare.
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The escalating global dengue crisis: A call for unified action
Once a localised threat, dengue fever has rapidly escalated into a global health emergency, putting nearly half the world's population at risk across more than 100 countries. As our world becomes…
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Pioneering solutions for community health: Africa's trailblazers
Many countries in Africa have grappled with significant challenges in providing accessible and quality healthcare to their populations due to insufficient infrastructure, shortages of medical…
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World Malaria Day 2024: Young people engaged through antimalaria school clubs as agents of change in malaria control
Despite being preventable and treatable, malaria threatens the lives of 3.2 billion people around the world. Every year, the disease accounts for hundreds of thousands of deaths, the majority of…
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San's story: A tailored approach to detecting the last malaria cases in Cambodia
In Cambodia, a community network of mobile malaria workers (MMWs) is reaching unreached communities with essential malaria services. They are supporting the government’s aim to eliminate all…
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Fatema's story: Shifting gender-biased norms in Bangladesh with a community dialogue approach
In Bangladesh, community engagement interventions are empowering women to address the contextual drivers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) — the development of resistance by bacteria to commonly used…
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International Women's Day 2024: Seven ways to make health programmes gender intentional
To successfully reduce the gender equity gap in healthcare, we need to be gender intentional in our health programming. This means identifying and understanding gender inequalities, gender-based…
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Psychosocial and economic rehabilitation training essential to improve wellbeing for patients with podoconiosis
Header photo by Genaye Eshetu Podoconiosis, also known as a non-filarial elephantiasis, is highly prevalent in the southwestern and central highlands of Ethiopia. The disease results from continued…
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Top reads of 2023
In 2023, alongside continuing our work with communities and governments across Africa and Asia to strengthen health systems, improve access to health services and find solutions to improve health and…
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A universal approach to health: Q&A with Dr George Upenytho, Uganda's Commissioner of Community Health
According to the World Health Organization, at least 400 million people still lack access to one or more essential health services. Universal health coverage (UHC) is a goal adopted by the United…
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How can we leverage social and behaviour change to make malaria history?
As the team from Malaria Consortium interacted with over 130 delegates at the 2023 RBM Partnership to End Malaria Social and Behaviour Change Working Group meeting in Abidjan under the topic…