357 items related to 'Diagnosis'
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Resources: Presentation :
Pneumonia Diagnostics project activity update
This presentation was prepared for the Pneumonia Diagnostics project meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee in Geneva in June 2014. It highlights Malaria Consortium’s role in the multi-country…
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Meetings in Geneva seek to address challenges in the detection of the symptoms of pneumonia
Recently, Malaria Consortium hosted a series of meetings in Geneva, bringing together global experts in child health, community case management, and diagnostics. During the meetings, the experts…
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Improving pneumonia diagnostics through the use of counting beads
Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children worldwide. Every year it kills an estimated 1.2 million young children, accounting for approximately 18 percent of all deaths in this age group –…
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Getting research evidence into health policy and practice - let's talk
With the support of many health-related journal editors, BioMed Central hosted the inaugural ‘Health Services Research: Evidence-based practice’ conference in London from 1-3 July, bringing together…
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Resources: Journal article :
Supervising community health workers in low-income countries: A review of impact and implementation issues
Findings of this review suggest that high-quality supervision that focuses on supportive approaches, community monitoring, and/or quality assurance/problem -solving may be most effective for policy…
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Resources: Project brief :
Creating a private sector market for quality-assured RDTs in malaria endemic countries
Diagnosis is one of many crucial components in the fight against malaria. Misdiagnosis or a lack of proper diagnosis can often lead to worsening symptoms and even death in patients and can…
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Resources: Learning paper :
Integrating mRDTs into the health system in Uganda: Preparing health workers for routine use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests
In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) changed its guidelines to state that all suspected malaria cases should be tested for the presence of malaria parasites by microscopy or malaria rapid…
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Resources: Learning paper :
Implementing integrated community case management: stakeholder experiences and lessons learned in three African countries
Malaria Consortium’s involvement in iCCM has spanned inputs to facilitate policy development, project design, implementation from start-up phase; ongoing support to the public health system in…
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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: 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: Poster :
Understanding the feasibility and potential impact of screening for asymptomatic malaria in households where a febrile case of malaria has been reported in a malaria elimination setting in Pailin province, Western Cambodia
This poster describes the results of a study funded by the Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance (MESA) that aims to generate the necessary information to develop an interventional tool consisting…
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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: Poster :
A field trial to evaluate the performance of a point-of-care diagnostic for screening G6PD deficiency in a falciparum and vivax malaria endemic area of Western Cambodia
This poster is one of a series of presentations for the 62nd ASTMH Annual Meeting. It presents an evaluation of the third generation of a new inexpensive and heat-stable point-of-care diagnostic for…
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Resources: Poster :
Managing acute febrile illness in the community
This poster is one of a series of presentations for the 62nd ASTMH Annual Meeting. It compares the diagnoses and treatments prescribed to sick children under five years in three settings – Midwest…
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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: 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: Project brief :
Cambodia: Identification algorithm for asymptomatic malaria in migrants
This project brief describes work to determine how cross-border surveillance can be adapted and better targeted to the difficult to reach populations in Cambodia. Accordingly, the results will…
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Resources: Project brief :
Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance: Active Detection and Treatment (Pailin)
This is a project brief outlining the aim to understand the feasibility and potential impact of screening for asymptomatic malaria in households where a febrile case of malaria has been reported in…
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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.