118 items related to 'COVID-19'
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COVID-19 adaptations: "Trainings are best in person, but until then, I'm logged in!"
Shafique Muhammad is a specialist in communication and behaviour change with areas of expertise in malaria and dengue prevention and control, maternal and newborn health, and polio eradication. He…
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Malaria Consortium findings highlight the need to better understand and support community health worker response to COVID-19
Recent findings published by Malaria Consortium highlight the importance of understanding community health worker knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19 and how this insight can be used,…
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Can the near-eradication of polio give us hope in the fight against malaria?
Across history, humans have successfully eradicated only one disease — smallpox. Successful eradication was made easier given that the disease was easy to diagnose because there were no asymptomatic…
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Our top blogs of 2020
In a challenging year for our operations across Africa and Asia, we have looked to communicate the breadth of Malaria Consortium’s work on our blog, including the ways we've adapted our programmes in…
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COVID-19 knowledge, beliefs, prevention behaviours and misinformation in the context of an adapted seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign in six northern Nigerian states
In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, we adapted our SMC delivery model to ensure safety of distributors, data collectors and communities.
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Health sector resilience provides the roadmap to UHC
12 December 2020 marks the seventh year of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day, where the international community comes together to renew its commitment to health for all by 2030.In approach,…
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Rapid support of the COVID-19 response at community level in Mozambique through adapting the existing upSCALE digital health platform and telemedicine
We supported adaptations to the upSCALE platform, which allowed for essential insight into community health workers' knowledge gaps around COVID-19.
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Adapting SMC in Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic: Enhancing safety and minimising risk
Our adaptations to our 2020 SMC campaign in Nigeria ensured the continued safe delivery of SMC during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Community health worker knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19: Learnings from an online cross-sectional survey using a digital health platform, UpSCALE, in Mozambique
Adapting the existing upSCALE platform enabled a better understanding of community health workers' knowledge around COVID-19 management.
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Looking to 2021 - the scope for SMC in the future
Progress towards fewer malaria cases and deaths has plateaued in recent years and achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of malaria elimination by 2030 looks increasingly challenging in…
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World Pneumonia Day 2020: Q&A with Dr Kevin Baker
12th November is World Pneumonia Day. This year, it takes place against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic which, in addition to its own impact on global health, is having a knock-on effect on…
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Strong partnerships make for successful programmes
In conversation with Nigeria’s National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) We spoke with Dr Audu Bala Mohammed, National Coordinator of Nigeria’s NMEP and his team to hear how the partnership with…
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Identifying Mozambican community health workers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices around COVID-19
Successful adaptation of a Mozambican digital health platform provided real-time data that is informing community health workers’ COVID-19 practices.
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Assessing adherence to infection prevention and control measures for seasonal malaria chemoprevention during COVID-19
This study will explore community distributors’ adherence to infection prevention and control practices for SMC in Burkina Faso, Chad and Nigeria during COVID-19.
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Adapting seasonal malaria chemoprevention during a pandemic
“We have rung the alarm bell loud and clear” WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the COVID-19 pandemic on 11 March 2020When the WHO declared in early March of this year that…
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COVID-19 and malaria: How surveillance systems can adapt to fight both
When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by WHO in March 2020, governments and organisations involved in the prevention and control of malaria had a choice to make – divert their attention from the…
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Assessing the feasibility, acceptability and impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Mozambique
Our new pilot study will assess the SMC in Nampula province, Mozambique, where SMC is highly seasonal.
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What we can learn from COVID-19-led behaviour change in tackling our next greatest threat: the antimicrobial resistance crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has put behaviour change under the spotlight across the world. Every community touched by the virus has been forced to change their way of life. Where a person might have washed…
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Malaria and COVID-19 – what can we learn from Nigeria?
In 2018, Nigeria accounted for 25 percent of the world’s malaria cases and continues to have one of the highest burdens of malaria today. In a time of fear and disruption amidst COVID-19, there were…
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In conversation with Hana Bilak, Malaria Technical Advisor at PATH
For the second instalment of our In Conversation with series, we spoke to Hana Bilak, Malaria Technical Advisor at PATH. This series aims to engage with a range of global health professionals on a…