1500 items related to 'Malaria'
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Community health workers use malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) safely and accurately: Results of a longitudinal study in Zambia
Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) could radically improve febrile illness management in remote and low-resource populations. However, reliance upon community health workers (CHWs) remains…
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Resources: Project brief :
NetWorks Project
NetWorks aims to support countries in the development of efficient, comprehensive and sustainable programmes to ensure high ownership and use of long lasting insecticidal nets and other malaria…
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Resources: Technical brief :
Technical brief: antimalarial drug resistance
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Resources: Briefing note :
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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Resources: Learning paper :
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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Resources: Learning paper :
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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Resources: Learning paper :
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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Resources: Project report :
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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Resources: Project report :
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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Resources: Journal article :
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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Resources: Project report :
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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Resources: Project report :
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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Resources: Journal article :
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…