1496 items related to 'Malaria'
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Developing a suitable algorithm for identifying asymptomatic malaria at border points
2014 Malaria Consortium Progress Symposium, Phnom Penh Cambodia Despite real progress towards malaria elimination in this part of Asia, the Greater Mekong Sub-region continues to face the worrying…
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2014 Malaria Consortium Progress Symposium, Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Opening Speech
2014 Malaria Consortium Progress Symposium, Phnom Penh Cambodia Despite real progress towards malaria elimination in this part of Asia, the Greater Mekong Sub-region continues to face the worrying…
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Positive deviance: an innovative approach to improve malaria outcomes
2014 Malaria Consortium Progress Symposium, Phnom Penh Cambodia Despite real progress towards malaria elimination in this part of Asia, the Greater Mekong Sub-region continues to face the worrying…
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Cambodia malaria surveillance system
2014 Malaria Consortium Progress Symposium, Phnom Penh Cambodia Despite real progress towards malaria elimination in this part of Asia, the Greater Mekong Sub-region continues to face the worrying…
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Building the evidence
SuNMap -- Support to National Malaria Programme -- was set up to support the Nigerian government tackle the burden of malaria, a disease that costs the country at least $1bn a year and causes…
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Addressing vector control challenges in our region
2014 Malaria Consortium Progress Symposium, Phnom Penh Cambodia Despite real progress towards malaria elimination in this part of Asia, the Greater Mekong Sub-region continues to face the worrying…
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InSCALE: Advocating for increased iCCM coverage in Uganda
Three quarters of deaths in children under five are caused by malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia often because access to quality health care is hardest in areas where the need is greatest. Uganda has…
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Fake medicines and malaria
In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that there were 207 million cases of malaria, which killed approximately 627,000 people – mostly children in sub-Saharan Africa. The best weapon…
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Uganda launches test kits project to boost malaria treatment in private health sector
16 September - Malaria Consortium, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and the National Drug Authority, WHO and other NGOs, has launched a $6.2 million (about £10.1 million) project to create…
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Making community health workers part of the public health solution
"Children used to die a lot. All the time we were burying them," says Nakigude Ruth, a mother who lost her three year old son while trying to get to the health facility as quickly as possible. There…
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Community dialogues in Zambia - in pictures
The success of health interventions hinges on the involvement of affected communities. One method of encouraging engagement is through community dialogues, which gather villagers to discuss and find…
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“We are supposed to take care of it”: A qualitative examination of care and repair behaviour of long-lasting, insecticide-treated nets in Nasarawa state, Nigeria
This study provides valuable insights into the perceptions and attitudes of users of long-lasting insecticidal nets in Nasarawa, Nigeria, on net durability, care and repair.
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Harmonisation of malaria control in Nigeria
Since 2008, the Support to National Malaria Programme (SuNMaP) project has been strengthening the national effort to control malaria in Nigeria through harmonising efforts by local, national and…
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Harmonisation: lessons for improving donor and partner support for malaria control
For most large-scale health programmes, harmonisation amongst partners is key. When it comes to disease control, this is all the more essential. As organisations work with limited resources and…
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Historic campaign delivers mosquito nets to every household across Uganda
A universal LLIN campaign to distribute 21 million nets across Uganda reached completion this weekend and was marked at an event in Kampala. The first distribution of its kind in Uganda, the 16 month…
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Evaluation of community-based systems for the surveillance of day three-positive Plasmodium falciparum cases in western Cambodia
Community-based surveillance of day-three Plasmodium falciparum cases is feasible, but highly intensive. It requires continuous support for supervision and training.
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Orientation on external quality assurance for malaria diagnostics
The Ugandan Ministry of Health, through funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, is rolling out external quality assurance (EQA) for malaria diagnostics across the…
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Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention projects in Africa
In the Sahel region of Africa, which covers a broad swathe of land south of the Sahara, malaria remains the leading cause of severe illness and death in young children. A high proportion of the…
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Supply + demand = access: A profile of assured artemisinin supply system and the ACT Forecasting Consortium
This poster was prepared by the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance for the second Access to Quality Medicines and Other Technologies Task Force Meeting in June 2014 in Manila. The poster discusses…
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The Cambodia Justice Police: Pragmatic approaches can work to clamp down on monotherapies and counterfeit drugs
This poster was prepared by the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance for the second Access to Quality Medicines and Other Technologies Task Force Meeting in June 2014 in Manila. It describes…