356 items related to 'Diagnosis'
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Universal versus conditional third day follow-up visit for children with nonsevere unclassified fever at the community level in Ethiopia: Protocol for a cluster randomized noninferiority trial
BackgroundUnder the World Health Organization’s integrated community case management strategy, febrile children seen by community health workers (on day one) without a diagnosable illness and without…
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ARIDA field trial: acceptability study
The Acute Respiratory Infection Diagnostic Aids (ARIDA) project aims to evaluate community health workers’ and facility health workers’ use of respiratory rate counting aids on children under five in…
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Resources: Case study :
Health extension workers on a mission to raise awareness of malaria
Integrated Community-based Interventions for Malaria Services (ICIMS) is a three-year James Percy Foundation-funded project that aims to improve the uptake and quality of community-based health…
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Army of women educate the community on malaria
Working alongside health extension workers, health development army volunteers, many of them women, encourage behaviour change by regularly visiting neighbours to teach them about global health…
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Communications to change attitudes to malaria in Ethiopia
Malaria Consortium supported the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region of Ethiopia to improve the use and quality of community-based health services under the James Percy…
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Resources: Newsletter :
Catch up: Malaria Consortium at ASTMH 2017
During the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine in Baltimore (USA) in 2017, our experts gave presentations on malaria surveillance, case management, pneumonia diagnostics…
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VOX Myanmar: Malaria volunteer on training and treating more illnesses
Malaria Consortium worked with Myanmar's National Malaria Control Programme, Child Health and Nutrition Divisions and Kalay, Pinlebu and Banmauk townships to introduce integrated community case…
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VOX Myanmar: A mother on how iCCM training helped save her daughter
Malaria Consortium worked with Myanmar's National Malaria Control Programme, Child Health and Nutrition Divisions and Kalay, Pinlebu and Banmauk townships to introduce integrated community case…
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Pneumonia is preventable and treatable, but deadly
Malaria Consortium has been one of the leading implementers of community based primary healthcare programmes involving pneumonia diagnostics and treatment for over a decade. This includes the…
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Resources: Project report :
Working together to combat malaria: Support to National Malaria Programme (SuNMaP)
SuNMaP worked with the Nigerian government’s National Malaria Elimination Programme to harmonise donor efforts and funding agencies around national policies and plans for malaria control. Project…
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Resources: Poster :
Effect of a community-based intervention on improving care-seeking behaviour for sick children under five in hard-to-reach communities in Niger state, Nigeria
This poster was presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference 2017. It discusses ways to increase access to diagnosis, treatment and referrals for malaria, pneumonia…
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Resources: Poster :
Determining the capability of family planning workers to deliver malaria case management in communities in Bandarban, Bangladesh
This poster was presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference 2017. It discusses a pilot study implemented to determine if family planning health workers — when…
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Hot or not? Management of unclassified fever in children in sub-Saharan Africa
This poster was presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference 2017. It discusses a study which assessed the safety of conditional versus universal follow-up of…
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Resources: Journal article :
Neglected tropical diseases: Exploring long-term practical approaches to achieve sustainable disease elimination and beyond
This paper identifies two major priorities in the fight against NTDs: strengthening the capacity of the primary health care health system in correctly diagnosing and managing such diseases, and…
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Resources: Project brief :
Strengthening primary healthcare for neglected tropical diseases in Ethiopia
This pilot tests materials and processes designed to strengthen health workers' capacity to detect, manage and record neglected tropical diseases at the primary healthcare level in Ethiopia.
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Resources: Newsletter :
Providing Ugandan community health workers with bicycles
Village health team members from 43 communities in Iyolwa, a sub-county in eastern Uganda, received brand new bicycles this month thanks to our recent fundraising campaign. Malaria Consortium…
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completedRise for Nutrition
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All you need to know: Community-based primary healthcare
Community-based primary health care (CBPHC) involves using trained community health workers to deliver health services to under-served communities in remote areas. Malaria Consortium just published…
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Resources: Advocacy report :
Community-based primary healthcare: The key to unlocking health for all
Community-based primary healthcare (CBPHC) delivers a range of health services to hard-to-reach and under-served communities. It can be the mechanism through which universal health coverage can be…
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completedExpanding rural communities' access to health services in Myanmar
Expanding rural health services to improve child health