1503 items related to 'Malaria'
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Smart diagnostics: The stepping stone in the pathway to malaria elimination
Advances in technology have made malaria both preventable and treatable, yet over 400,000 people died from the disease in 2019, two-thirds of them children under the age of five and more than 90…
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Resources: Capacity statement :
Malaria Consortium Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, we are tackling malaria, neglected tropical diseases and poor child health indicators through innovative approaches to health systems strengthening.
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Resources: Project report :
Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention program: Philanthropy report 2020
Malaria Consortium’s annual report on the use of philanthropic funding for SMC.
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Resources: Project report :
Quantitative report on seasonal malaria chemoprevention supported by Malaria Consortium in 2020: Coverage and quality in Burkina Faso, Chad, Nigeria and Togo
This report outlines methods employed by Malaria Consortium for monitoring coverage of its SMC programme and the quality of SMC delivery in 2020.
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Resources: Project brief :
Reducing malaria morbidity in infants through intermittent preventive treatment in Nigeria
This study is assessing the clinical effectiveness and operational feasibility of Intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) in Nigeria. It aims to generate the necessary evidence to support…
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Solar-charged solutions: Improving digital tools for community health workers in Mozambique
In 2016, we worked closely with the Ministry of Health in Mozambique and UNICEF to bridge the gap in community healthcare, developing the upSCALE mHealth app to assist community health workers, known…
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Surveillance and response is the bedrock of resilient health systems: Q&A with Arantxa Roca-Feltrer
Disease surveillance has not typically made headlines or secured high billing on priority global health agendas but, with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, phrases like ‘track and treat’ have crept into…
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Malaria Consortium and COVID-19: Prioritising public health
We have lived with the reality of COVID-19 as a global pandemic for over 12 months and it has been a year of intense public health efforts. As Malaria Consortium remains committed to disease burden…
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Resources: Learning brief :
Strengthening surveillance for data-informed malaria control activities
During the first year of implementing our three-year project in Mozambique, we carried out general activities to accelerate malaria case reduction.
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Resources: Case study :
Strengthen community-based malaria services through improved planning and engagement across the health system
Hear from stakeholders how the project is strengthening the delivery and management of malaria control interventions at the primary healthcare unit in Ethiopia.
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Resources: Case study :
Educating communities on malaria and COVID-19 prevention through radio messages
Zenebech and her family live in Boloso Sore district, Ethiopia, where our project aims to ensure health messages are accessible to all community members.
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Resources: Case study :
Training health extension workers on malaria outbreak detection
Beletech, a health extension worker in rural Ethiopia, has undertaken training in malaria outbreak response, read her story.
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New study underlines the importance of active case detection for malaria control in Cambodia’s forests
A new case study from north-eastern Cambodia, published by Malaria Consortium in Malaria Journal, has underlined the need for tailored active case detection approaches in forest border areas in order…
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Seasonal malaria chemoprevention and COVID-19: One year on
2020 was the most difficult year in living memory. Echoing the call of the World Health Organization (WHO), Malaria Consortium supported arguments for malaria programmes to be maintained as essential…
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One woman's impact in the fight against malaria
Twinomugisa is a primary school teacher in Hoima district. She and her family struggled for many years with an ongoing cycle of malaria infection that would prevent her from going to work and impact…
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Resources: Learning brief :
Mass distribution of long lasting insecticidal nets during COVID-19
We implemented context-specific adaptions to ensure communities in Warrap state, South Sudan, continued to receive LLINs during the pandemic in 2020.
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Resources: Case study :
Taking the fight against malaria from home to school
After receiving training from key influencers trained by USAID’s MAPD, school teacher Twinomugisa Harriet ensures her year two pupils are free from malaria.
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Resources: Case study :
Tumuramye’s story about preventing malaria infection in his family
USAID’s Malaria Action Program for Districts in Uganda trained key influencers to use the ‘zooming in’ approach — a data-driven surveillance approach.
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New seasonal malaria chemoprevention research study in Uganda could move the country towards malaria pre-elimination
Malaria Consortium is drawing on its extensive experience delivering seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) in the Sahel region of Africa, and its expertise in designing and implementing cutting edge…
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Resources: Learning brief :
Implementing a community-based approach to indoor residual spraying to improve acceptance, cost-effectiveness and efficiency
With support from the James Percy Foundation, we helped to implement a community-based indoor residual spraying campaign in two districts in Ethiopia.