957 Publications items related to 'Malaria'
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Malaria intervention
This briefing note provides background to the introduction of an intervention designed to prevent illness and death from malaria among young children during peak transmission season.
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Developing and implementing training materials for integrated community case management in South Sudan
In South Sudan, ICCM – or integrated community case management – is carried out by trained community volunteers called community drug distributors (CDDs) or community based distributors. These…
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Building capacity for universal coverage: Malaria control in Nigeria
Support to the Nigeria Malaria Programme – is a £50 million five-year UK aid funded programme that works with the government and people of Nigeria to strengthen the national effort to control…
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Community dialogues for healthy children: encouraging communities to talk
Integrated community case management (ICCM) – an approach where community-based health workers are trained to identify, treat and refer children under-five with pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria – is…
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Developing Intervention Strategies: innovations to improve community health worker motivation and performance
During the last decade child mortality has reduced significantly in a number of African countries, largely due to the scale up of appropriate management of diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria, three…
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Report on work towards a village-based malaria stratification system for Cambodia
An external report on work in May and June 2012 towards building an updated national malaria stratification system for Cambodia based on observed malaria incidence.
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Evaluation of community- and health facility-based systems for the surveillance of cases of day-3 positive Plasmodium falciparum in Cambodia
This report is an external evaluation of Malaria Consortium's community- and health facility-based surveillance systems, whose aim was to monitor day-3 positive P. falciparum cases in Cambodia.
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Resources: Project brief :
South Sudan: Community-based LLIN Continuous Distribution Pilot
This is a project brief on Malaria Consortium's pilot project to establish a community-based continuous distribution system of long lasting insecticide nets (LLINs) in South Sudan.
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Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the WHO: Conclusions and recommendations of September 2012 meeting
This article provides a summary of the discussions, conclusions and recommendations from the meeting of the Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the World Health Organization in September 2012.
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Resources: Learning brief :
Successful roll out of RDTs in Uganda
This brief is based on Malaria Consortium’s lessons learned over three years of implementation and research on scaling up the use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests at community and health facility…
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Support to National Malaria Programme (SuNMaP): Context and an overview of programme achievements, experiences and lessons
The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of SuNMaP’s achievements, experiences and lessons in the course of programme implementation. It highlights some of the implications of current…
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Report of the Cambodia Containment Survey 2009 and 2010
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An Innovative Approach to Improve Malaria Outcomes Among Mobile and Migrant Workers in Cambodia: The “Positive Deviance” Process
A report on Malaria Consortium's use of a 'positive deviance' approach to achieving behaviour change and improving the malaria outcomes among mobile and migrant workers in Cambodia.
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Use of RDTs to improve malaria diagnosis and fever case management at primary healthcare facilities in Uganda
This study evaluated the effect of malaria rapid diagnostic tests on health workers' antimalarial drug prescriptions among outpatients at low-level health care facilities within different malaria…
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The clinical impact of combining intermittent preventive treatment with home management of malaria in children aged below five years: Cluster randomised trial
This study aimed to investigate the impact of seasonal intermittent preventive treatment on malaria-related morbidity in children under five who already had access to home-based management of malaria…
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System effectiveness of a targeted free mass distribution of long-lasting insecticidal nets in Zanzibar, Tanzania
A targeted mass distribution of free LLINs to children under five and pregnant women was implemented in Zanzibar between August 2005 and January 2006. This study evaluates the outcomes of this…
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Plasmodium–helminth coinfection and its sources of heterogeneity across East Africa
Abstract Plasmodium–helminth coinfection can have a number of consequences for infected hosts, yet our knowledge of the epidemiology of coinfection across multiple settings is limited. This study…
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Performance of three multi-species rapid diagnostic tests for diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
This study compared three rapid diagnostic tests' performance, ease of use and heat stability to offer evidence to the Federal Ministry of Health for product selection.
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Limited ability of Plasmodium falciparum Pfcrt, Pfmdr1, and Pfnhe1 polymorphisms to predict quinine in vitro sensitivity or clinical effectiveness in Uganda
Abstract Quinine is a standard drug for treating severe malaria in Africa, and it is also increasingly used to treat uncomplicated disease. However, failures of quinine therapy are common, and it is…
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How many mosquito nets are needed to achieve universal coverage? Recommendations for the quantification and allocation of long-lasting insecticidal nets for mass campaigns
Abstract Long-lasting insecticidal nets are an effective tool for malaria prevention, and "universal coverage" with such nets is increasingly the goal of national malaria control programmes.…