26 News items related to 'Digital health'
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New research highlights the power of digital tools to reach more children and fight malaria in Mozambique
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Digitalisation of mosquito net distribution shows key benefits for campaign monitoring
Digitalising insecticide-treated net distribution to improve the accuracy of data collection and allow real-time data use is yielding promising results in South Sudan and Nigeria, according to new…
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Malaria Consortium and eGov Foundation join Mozambique’s national malaria programme to digitalise seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaigns
In a new collaboration, Malaria Consortium and eGov Foundation will support Mozambique’s National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) to roll out a new digital tool to accelerate the digitalisation of…
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Digital solutions driving equitable access to health
At the Global Digital Health Forum 2023, under the theme ‘Driving effective and equitable digital health innovation’, a panel discussion brought together stakeholders from across the health system…
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Assessing the effectiveness of a community digital health platform in Mozambique
In a new learning paper published today, Malaria Consortium reviews the effectiveness of upSCALE, a community digital health platform implemented in Mozambique. Over a four-year period, upSCALE…
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Sub-Saharan countries well positioned to pioneer digital molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases as part of an African digital transformation
In a new paper published in PLOS Digital Health, researchers highlight how early adoption of digital molecular diagnostics – small electronic tools that analyse samples and give a diagnosis for…
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Annual SMERG meeting drives digitalisation of malaria surveillance
The RBM Partnership to End Malaria hosted its 33rd meeting of the Surveillance, Monitoring, and Evaluation Reference Group (SMERG) from 17 to 20 May 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda. Discussions focused on…
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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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Digital health at the forefront of the community response in Mozambique amidst COVID-19 pandemic
Malaria Consortium is rapidly adapting its existing digital platform, upSCALE, to better support health workers’ ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. The changes include a…
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Annual Review Meeting of the upSCALE platform in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique
More than 70 participants attended a meeting to discuss the annual review of the upSCALE project, carried out by the Provincial Directorate of Heath of Cabo Delgado in partnership with Malaria…
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Malaria Consortium endorses the Principles for Digital Development
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce its endorsement of the Principles for Digital Development. This set of nine guidelines, designed by an international working group, promotes best practice in…
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From bites to bytes: Arantxa Roca-Feltrer discusses malaria surveillance to mark WHO’s 70th birthday
“Getting good data on malaria is essential. Like a puzzle, each piece fits together to help experts understand trends such as how many people are getting sick and how many have died.” - WHO This year…
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Expanding community-based mobile health (mHealth) in Mozambique
From 2012 to 2016 in Mozambique, Malaria Consortium developed and tested a mobile-phone based application to increase community health workers’ capacity to manage clinical cases better. The app…
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Pneumonia Diagnostics Project shares results at dissemination meetings in Cambodia
On March 15, 2016, Malaria Consortium hosted a workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to disseminate the preliminary results of our multi-country pneumonia diagnostics research project. The research aims…
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Innovation key to defeating malaria
London, 25 April 2016 – “Significant progress in malaria control and elimination has been made between 2000 and now, with malaria mortality rates falling by 60 percent and over 6.2 million lives…
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Strong regional health systems are the answer to infectious disease control
Bangkok, 9 March 2016 – “Every day we see evidence of the impact of infectious diseases, not only on our health systems, but on our economy and most importantly the everyday life of our people.” Dr.…
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Community level personal protection crucial for malaria elimination in Myanmar
Yangon, Myanmar - “Scaling up insecticide-treated clothing and targeting migrant and mobile populations in Myanmar is crucial. Treated clothing partly fills a gap in personal protection of vulnerable…
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Training for improved surveillance and data management in Myanmar
Last month, Malaria Consortium – in partnership with the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/President’s…
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Sharing progress and lessons learnt from the pneumonia diagnostics project in South Sudan
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in children under five in both Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. A large number of the children who die from pneumonia do so as a result of…
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Sharing progress and lessons learnt from the pneumonia diagnostics project in South Sudan
The South Sudan Ministry of Health, in collaboration with UNICEF, held an important technical meeting in Juba from the 23-24 July to discuss integrated management of neonatal and childhood illnesses…