1496 items related to 'Malaria'
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Celebrating success – LLIN distribution in South Sudan during COVID-19
Working with the South Sudan National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) and Population Services International (PSI), Malaria Consortium recently completed a successful long-lasting insecticidal net…
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Resources: Research brief :
Co-implementing vitamin A supplementation with seasonal malaria chemoprevention: A pilot implementation study in Sokoto state, Nigeria
Our pilot implementation study in Nigeria successfully delivered vitamin A supplementation to children under five using the existing SMC campaign.
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Resources: Project brief :
Supporting frontline health workers in Uganda: Strengthening capacity during COVID-19 and beyond
With Mastercard Foundation, we are developing the capacity of frontline health workers to tackle COVID-19 while providing community case management services.
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Malaria Consortium delivers life-saving antimalarial drugs across West Africa
The first treatment cycle of the 2020 seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaign is underway and Malaria Consortium is on course to reach 12 million children in Burkina Faso, Chad and…
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In conversation with Janice Apilado, Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance Secretariat (APLMA) / Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN)
In the first of our In Conversation with series, we spoke to Janice Apilado, Communications Manager at APLMA/APMEN. The series aims to engage with a range of global health professionals on how the…
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12 million children set to receive life-saving seasonal malaria chemoprevention
Malaria Consortium is ensuring that around 12 million children under five will receive life-saving protection from malaria despite the COVID-19 pandemic as it prepares to deliver its seasonal malaria…
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June 2020 — upSCALE newsletter Mozambique
This newsletter provides an update from our upSCALE project in Mozambique.
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Happy anniversary, PMI
This week, the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) celebrates its 15 years at the forefront of the global fight against malaria. We are proud to have worked in partnership with PMI during this time…
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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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Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on malaria and other infectious diseases in Uganda: Understanding comorbidities
This project seeks to understand the burden of malaria, but also of TB and HIV/AIDS, among patients with COVID-19 to assess the potential interactions.
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Floods in Uganda underline the need for climate resilience
Kachanga is a small settlement on the Ugandan banks of Lake Victoria. It is populated by fishermen and their families for whom the lake provides their livelihood. But in May, following huge…
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Latest APMEN TechTalk addresses the challenges of residual malaria in remote forested areas
Countries in the Asia Pacific region have done extremely well in achieving impressive levels of malaria reduction, but many still face the challenge of residual malaria. In the Greater Mekong…
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Resources: Advocacy brief :
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention: An essential health service for Nigeria
With global SMC stakeholders, we have developed infection prevention contingency measures for SMC that will greatly reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection.
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Malaria Consortium outlines nine key approaches to help mitigate climate-related threats to health
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce the publication of an opinion paper exploring the impact climate change could have on global health. This paper, Adapting to minimise the health impacts of…
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New town hall meetings in Nigeria lead to concrete commitments on malaria funding
Jigawa state sits at the heart of northern Nigeria, the region of the country most severely affected by malaria. Back in March, before the COVID-19 lockdown took hold, the first of a new kind of…
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Resources: Position statement :
Adapting to minimise the health impacts of climatic changes
We believe it is essential to continue to incorporate responses to climate-related risks into our programmes.
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Resources: Project brief :
Supporting community health workers in Mozambique to respond to COVID-19: Adapting the upSCALE digital platform
We made technological adaptations to Mozambique's existing upSCALE digital platform to support health workers' ability to respond to the pandemic.
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Resources: Journal article :
Quantification of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity by spectrophotometry: A systemic review and meta-analysis
Our findings indicate that there is substantial variation in G6PD measurements by spectrophotometry between sites.
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Innovating and adapting during COVID-19
By some accounts, we may currently be living through a once-in-a-century pandemic. Whether or not this turns out to be true, the sheer scale of the global response attests to these being…
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Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) and COVID-19
Protecting the world's most vulnerable people is crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic. The delivery of life saving health services must not be interrupted however, especially at community level, if…