62 Blog items related to 'MNCH'
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Community engagement crucial to success of SMC campaign in Mozambique
In 2020, Malaria Consortium began a phased implementation study to assess the feasibility, acceptability and protective effect of SMC in Nampula province, in the north of Mozambique. Working in…
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Photo story: SMC beyond the Sahel: Protecting children from malaria in Uganda
Malaria Consortium is supporting Uganda’s National Malaria Control Division (NMCD) to implement a pilot project assessing the feasibility, acceptability and impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention…
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Our research strategy for seasonal malaria chemoprevention
Malaria Consortium is launching a new seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) research strategy. As a leading implementer of SMC, we strive to use research evidence to improve programme performance…
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Seasonal malaria chemoprevention and COVID-19: One year on
2020 was the most difficult year in living memory. Echoing the call of the World Health Organization (WHO), Malaria Consortium supported arguments for malaria programmes to be maintained as essential…
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One woman's impact in the fight against malaria
Twinomugisa is a primary school teacher in Hoima district. She and her family struggled for many years with an ongoing cycle of malaria infection that would prevent her from going to work and impact…
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Can the near-eradication of polio give us hope in the fight against malaria?
Across history, humans have successfully eradicated only one disease — smallpox. Successful eradication was made easier given that the disease was easy to diagnose because there were no asymptomatic…
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Publication snapshot of 2020
We have produced over 60 new publications covering a wide range of Malaria Consortium’s activities this year. From advocacy briefs to capacity and position statements, these are just a small…
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Our top blogs of 2020
In a challenging year for our operations across Africa and Asia, we have looked to communicate the breadth of Malaria Consortium’s work on our blog, including the ways we've adapted our programmes in…
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Looking to 2021 - the scope for SMC in the future
Progress towards fewer malaria cases and deaths has plateaued in recent years and achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of malaria elimination by 2030 looks increasingly challenging in…
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World Pneumonia Day 2020: Q&A with Dr Kevin Baker
12th November is World Pneumonia Day. This year, it takes place against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic which, in addition to its own impact on global health, is having a knock-on effect on…
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Strong partnerships make for successful programmes
In conversation with Nigeria’s National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) We spoke with Dr Audu Bala Mohammed, National Coordinator of Nigeria’s NMEP and his team to hear how the partnership with…
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Adapting seasonal malaria chemoprevention during a pandemic
“We have rung the alarm bell loud and clear” WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the COVID-19 pandemic on 11 March 2020When the WHO declared in early March of this year that…
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How COVID-19 has affected SMC supply chains
During last year's seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaign, we outlined some of the steps that go into getting millions of doses of preventive treatment to millions of children across the…
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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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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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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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Will a vaccine end the fight against malaria?
There were 386,000 malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa in 2018, and projections suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause that number to double — to 769,000 deaths — owing to a lack of access…
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Imelda's story: From tragedy to a healthy future
Just off the Masaka to Kampala road lies Kyamuyimbwa, a town of 22,000. Imelda’s house sits along the main road, right in the middle of town. The road is busy and so when we arrive to speak to Imelda…
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Our statement on COVID-19 and SMC
This is a previous statement related to Malaria Consortium's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. See our latest statement on COVID-19 and SMC. Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is an essential…
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Lessons from Ouagadougou: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in urban contexts
Since 2013, Malaria Consortium has been a leader in implementing seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) in the Sahel. In Burkina Faso, we have been working with the government and implementing…