239 items related to 'Digital health'
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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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Our third year as an Independent Research Organisation: Using research to respond to health inequities and emerging threats
According to the World Health Organization’s State of Inequality: HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2021), diseases including malaria continue to take a disproportionally large toll on marginalised…
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Improving community health worker treatment for malaria, diarrhoea, and pneumonia in Uganda through inSCALE community and mHealth innovations
The results of this cluster randomised controlled trial suggest that interventions that promote learning and increase CHWs' confidence and connectedness to the wider health system and community can…
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2024
According to the UNESCO Science Report: The Race Against Time for Smarter Development (2021), women researchers are more likely to have shorter, less well-paid careers than their male counterparts…
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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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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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completedIntroducing a digital intervention to strengthen the Boma Health Initiative
The South Sudan Ministry of Health adopted the Boma Health Initiative in 2017 with the aim of standardising the provision of community health services and enhancing access to essential primary…
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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…
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Introducing a digital intervention to strengthen the Boma Health Initiative
A project to digitalise integrated community case management in South Sudan aims to address gaps in reporting and increase data quality, and could also improve child health outcomes.
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Implementation of an Electronic Community Health Information System and research lessons
Malaria Consortium has worked with the Ugandan Ministry of Health to develop and implement a digital tool to enhance service provision and surveillance of integrated community case management.
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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 acceptability and feasibility of digitalising the community health worker programme in Uganda
Digitalisation of community health programmes is highly acceptable to community health workers and could improve health services.
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Evaluating the acceptability and usability of digital tools for implementing a long-lasting insecticidal net distribution campaign in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, South Sudan
Digitalisation of long-lasting insecticidal net distribution is possible in areas with low network coverage.
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Implementation of a mass insecticide-treated net campaign using information and communication technology for development through a single-phase distribution approach in Anambra state, Nigeria
Digitalisation of insecticide-treated net distribution activities in Anambra state improved the efficiency, accountability and transparency of the campaign.
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Enhancing data-driven malaria interventions: Using the Electronic Community Health Information System programme to support community health workers in Buikwe district, Uganda
The successful integration of the eCHIS programme into Buikwe district's health system serves as a promising model for promoting data-driven decision-making and enhancing behavioural change.
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Artificial intelligence among innovations supporting improved pneumonia diagnosis
Research has a huge role to play in finding innovative ways to defeat pneumonia, the world's leading infectious cause of death in children. Despite being preventable and treatable, pneumonia is…
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ASTMH Annual Meeting pinpoints research gaps to advance global health
In October 2023, Malaria Consortium participated in the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASMTH) in Chicago, USA. The conference brought together…
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Integrated community case management
With vast experience in supporting iCCM initiatives across Africa and Asia, Malaria Consortium offers technical assistance to ministries of health to implement and improve their iCCM programmes.
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Implementing a large-scale community digital health platform in Mozambique: Lessons from upSCALE
upSCALE is a digital health solution that improves disease surveillance and community-based healthcare in Mozambique.
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Institutionalising data ownership and data-informed decision-making for community health programmes in Mozambique
Integrating upSCALE into the Ministry of Health's surveillance systems will support data-driven decision-making for community health interventions.