1496 items related to 'Malaria'
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Harnessing the SMC campaign in Nigeria: Safety, equity and cost of fully integrating vitamin A supplementation
Integrating VAS with SMC is safe, feasible, acceptable to communities and implementers, and can be achieved at minimal additional cost.
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Assessing Nigerian caregivers’ health-seeking behaviour when managing febrile illness and malaria in infants
Caregivers use a mix of traditional and orthodox medicines, as well as unprescribed over-the-counter drugs, to treat febrile infants.
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Cultural factors influencing the implementation of perennial malaria chemoprevention in children under five
Cultural norms, beliefs and practices regarding immunisation can promote or inhibit implementation of perennial malaria chemoprevention in Nigeria.
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Measuring the impact of SMC on malaria prevalence and case distribution compared to predicted estimates from a transmission model in Burkina Faso
Analysing prevalence trends and age distribution of cases is a useful method for estimating the impact of SMC in Burkina Faso.
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Facilitators of, and barriers to, fully integrating SMC with vitamin A supplementation: A qualitative enquiry
Full integration of SMC and vitamin A supplementation at scale is feasible and acceptable.
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Optimising the role of lead mothers in SMC campaigns: Insights from formative research in Kano state, northern Nigeria
Lead mothers can influence caregivers to adopt positive malaria prevention behaviours, but their recruitment and supervision could be improved.
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Exploring the role model approach to strengthen the administration of SMC medicines in Chad
The role model approach supports caregivers to administer SMC medicines more effectively.
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Using the role model approach to identify best practices and challenges during SMC drug administration in Burkina Faso
Through the role model approach, several identified behaviours in the community helped to improve the administration of SMC medicines.
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Optimising the delivery of routine malaria data quality assessments in Mozambique
Modelling exercises can optimise operational delivery of routine data quality assessments and support institutionalising this approach.
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Evaluating the performance of CHIPS agents: Managing uncomplicated malaria in Kano state, Nigeria
Nigeria’s new community service delivery model supports improved quality of malaria services for hard-to-reach populations.
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Reflections of outgoing Malaria Consortium Chief Executive, Charles Nelson
As I reflect on recent visits to our country teams and programme activities in Uganda, Ethiopia and Nigeria - my last visits in my role as Chief Executive of Malaria Consortium - it seems to me to…
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Uganda celebrates launch of SMC as part of roadmap to achieve zero malaria status by 2030
Today, Uganda celebrated the official launch of its seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme at an event in Moroto, attended by Uganda’s State Minister for Health - General Duties, Anifa…
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Training malaria volunteers to deliver integrated community case management: Lessons learnt from rural Myanmar
Integrated community case management is a strategy to deliver life-saving, curative interventions for common childhood illnesses.
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Delivering a long-lasting insecticidal net campaign in South Sudan
We are carrying out a mass long-lasting insecticidal net distribution campaign in the states of Central Equatoria, Jonglei, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile, Warrap and Western Equatoria to combat…
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Ethiopia: Supporting surveillance, outbreak detection and response
Health centre heads in Ethiopia share how they use the malaria surveillance dashboard to facilitate outbreak detection and response at the community level.
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upSCALE: Strengthening mobile health to improve disease surveillance and community-based services in Mozambique
The upSCALE digital community health information platform facilitates improved quality of service delivery and, consequently, timely treatment.
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Mozambique: Peer-to-peer learning improves malaria response
Vito manages a team of health technicians at the Heber Health Facility in Mecanhelas district. His team provides essential health services for local patients.
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Mozambique: The difference data quality makes
Paula and Cacilda are malaria focal points at Mabil Health Facility in Inhambane province. They are treating an average of 100 patients a day.
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Mozambique: Integrated team improves resource allocation in Manica district
Dr Santana, District Chief Medical Officer, shares how he manages the district malaria programme and distributes health resources across 19 health facilities.
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Malaria surveillance in Mozambique
In Mozambique, malaria is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality, responsible for 10 million infections and over 23,000 deaths in 2020, with children under five and pregnant women most at risk.…