122 Blog items related to 'Malaria'
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Time for business unusual: Can philanthropy be the catalyst required to achieve malaria elimination?
A child dies almost every minute from malaria. While huge gains have been made in recent history in reducing the burden of malaria — with deaths falling by 50 percent between 2000 and 2015 — progress…
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San's story: A tailored approach to detecting the last malaria cases in Cambodia
In Cambodia, a community network of mobile malaria workers (MMWs) is reaching unreached communities with essential malaria services. They are supporting the government’s aim to eliminate all…
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Re-evaluating approaches to malaria elimination in Africa: Prioritising partnerships for progress
With over 20 years’ experience in healthcare delivery, public health and operational research on communicable diseases in Africa and Asia, I recognise the inherent complexity of malaria. The disease…
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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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Photo story: Second learning exchange enhances preparedness for emerging and future threats in African countries
Aedes-borne arboviruses — a group of diseases including dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and zika transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes — are among the fastest spreading infections in the world. Since…
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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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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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Mairo's mission to save lives: The matron improving outcomes for children with severe malaria
Photos by David Dawali Exodus This is Mairo, a matron at a hospital in Kano state, in northern Nigeria. She stands in the middle of the ward where is she is responsible, alongside a team of nurses,…
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Showcasing our SMC research at the ASTMH Annual Meeting 2023
This year, Malaria Consortium proudly marks its 20th anniversary. Since its inception in 2003, our organisation has collaborated with governments and partners across Africa and Asia focusing on…
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Genetic interventions to combat obstinate mosquito-borne scourges
This piece was written for Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research and republished here, authored by Leo Braack, Co-Chair of APMEN Vector Control Working Group; Senior Vector Control Specialist from…
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Photo story: Universal net coverage is saving lives in South Sudan
Adut is a mother of four children (soon to be five) from South Sudan. Every year, her local community suffers the effects of malaria, with lives lost to this preventable and treatable disease.
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Distributing antimalarial medicines to 25 million children: The supply chain step-by-step
Author's note: This blog is an update from the original article published in 2019. Since then, Malaria Consortium's SMC activities have grown from targeting six million children to 25 million…
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Developing a digital data platform to support data-to-action decision-making
Programmes that aim to target disease control and improve health outcomes for populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are often complex and multi-faceted and, as a result, it can…
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Investing in research: Moving the dial for effective, equitable healthcare
Globally, countries in Africa and Asia face the world's highest mortality rates attributable to diseases including malaria, dengue and pneumonia. Research plays a critical role in improving health…
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Photo story: Eliminating malaria in Cambodia: Leaving no one behind
Cambodia has achieved significant levels of malaria reduction, aiming to eliminate all species of malaria by 2025. Despite this progress, populations living in the most remote and forested areas in…
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Photo story: Research explores potential risk of contracting malaria and developing long-term complications following COVID-19 infection
In selected hospitals and COVID-19 treatment centres in Ethiopia and Uganda, teams of physicians, lab technicians, data managers and study coordinators, are working on an innovative research project,…
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Critical conversations on genetic control strategies for malaria control in East Africa
Genetic modification is a topic of much debate for those focused on malaria control and elimination. Towards the end of last year, I joined policymakers, scientists, researchers and legal experts…
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Top reads of 2022
2022 was a busy year at Malaria Consortium! Thanks to our supporters, we were able to work with communities and governments across Africa and Asia to strengthen health systems, improve access to…
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Defining the future of SMC in Togo: Exploring new delivery strategies
Togo has been implementing seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) since 2013, following recommendations from the World Health Organization. Since 2020, Malaria Consortium has been a partner of…