1500 items related to 'Malaria'
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Resources: Project brief :
Assessing and addressing barriers to the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy in Uganda: Pilot intervention
This project aims to increase the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) to reduce the burden of malaria in pregnancy in Uganda. Based on formative research, a pilot…
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Resources: Journal article :
The effect of single or repeated home visits on the hanging and use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets following a mass distribution campaign: A cluster randomized, controlled trial
Background The study objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of commonly used post-campaign hang-up visits on the hanging and use of campaign nets. Methods A cluster-randomized trial was…
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The people behind Operation Health
Operation Health – Comic Relief’s initiative to refurbish a health facility with support from Malaria Consortium – has had widespread participation from the local community in Iyolwa, eastern Uganda.…
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Malaria Consortium's 'Stop Malaria Project' ends with close-out event
This month marked the completion of the Stop Malaria Project, which had been running across Uganda for six years. Funded by USAID/President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and led by Johns Hopkins…
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Videos :
inSCALE Mobile Technology in Mozambique - enhancing community health
The inSCALE project in Mozambique is part of a multi-country study that includes Uganda and is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project is working to increase coverage of…
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New Malaria Consortium project will expand access to iCCM services across mid-western Uganda
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce that Comic Relief has awarded us a grant to run a new project in midwestern Uganda focusing on reducing deaths from pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria in…
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Red Nose Day 2015 marks the culmination of Operation Health project
London. Friday, March 13 – Today is Red Nose Day, marking the culmination of Comic Relief’s Operation Health project in Uganda. The project, which began nine weeks ago, saw the reconstruction and…
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Ugandan Pioneer Project unveils achievements and charts the way forward
25 February – With 100 percent of its population at risk of malaria and 15,632 deaths from malaria occurring last year, Uganda faces many challenges. Chief among these are high malaria transmission,…
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Resources: Poster :
Improving uptake of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Uganda through a multipronged communication approach
This poster was presented at the 14th World Congress on Public Health in February 2015 and describes Malaria Consortium's multifaceted communications approach used when introducing malaria rapid…
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Pioneer Project - in pictures
Malaria Consortium’s Pioneer project was a five-year initiative in Uganda that reduced the malaria burden in the country using a variety of effective methods. Take a look at the gallery below to…
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Resources: Advocacy report :
Malaria: The last mile
This special report — based on a roundtable event held in partnership with Malaria Consortium — was published in the New Statesman magazine and focuses on the threat of drug resistant malaria in…
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Malaria: the last mile - a special report on drug resistant malaria
The spread of drug resistant malaria threatens to undermine the excellent progress made in recent years to tackle this disease. This is an issue of international importance as if drug resistant…
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Malaria Consortium supports Comic Relief's Operation Health campaign
Malaria Consortium is delighted to be part of Comic Relief’s main fundraising campaign for Red Nose Day this year - Operation Health, involving a major renovation of a dilapidated rural clinic in…
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completedImplementation of Regional Artemisinin Initiative (RAI)
The overall goal of the Regional Artemisinin (RAI) programme is to contribute as much as possible to the elimination of falciparum malaria from the Greater Mekong Subregion, and to prevent the…
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completedIyolwa Health Centre phase 1 and 2
This project funded by Comic Relief aims to provide local level expertise and support for the refurbishment of Iyolwa Health Centre, Tororo district, Uganda. Endorsed by the Ministry of Health and…
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The Road to Dignity - Malaria Consortium's response
Malaria Consortium welcomes the UN Secretary General’s synthesis report as an important contribution to the post-2015 negotiation process. It is crucial that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…
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Resources: Journal article :
What happens to lost nets: A multi-country analysis of reasons for LLIN attrition using 14 household surveys in four countries
Background While significant focus has been given to net distribution, little is known about what is done with nets that leave a household, either to be used by others or when they are discarded. To…
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New paper highlights the role of the commercial sector in net coverage
Malaria Consortium is pleased to release a new Learning Paper on developing a long lasting insecticidal net retail (LLIN) market in Nigeria, highlighting how the commercial sector can help to expand…
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Videos :
Active Case Detection and Treatment project (Cambodia/Thailand)
Malaria Consortium has conducted an active malaria case detection and treatment project in Pailin, Cambodia focused on eliminating the disease in the region. Cambodia has been classified by the World…
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Malaria Elimination (Cambodia/Thailand)
This film describes how Malaria Consortium is working towards the elimination of malaria in Cambodia by 2025 on multiple fronts. It shows how we work to determine how cross-border surveillance can be…