259 items related to 'Pneumonia'
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Resources: Project report :
InScale reports and documentation
This database offers reports, analysis and research outcomes along with other related documentation on the inSCALE project.
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Resources: Learning paper :
Implementing integrated community case management: stakeholder experiences and lessons learned in three African countries
Malaria Consortium’s involvement in iCCM has spanned inputs to facilitate policy development, project design, implementation from start-up phase; ongoing support to the public health system in…
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Improved tools for the measurement of respiratory rate and oxygen saturation for the detection of signs of pneumonia
This project aims to identify the most accurate, acceptable, scalable and user-friendly respiratory rate timers and pulse oximeters for the detection of pneumonia symptoms in children by community…
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completedImproved tools for the measurement of respiratory rate and oxygen saturation for diagnosis of pneumonia
The project aims to identify the most accurate, acceptable, scalable and user-friendly respiratory rate timers and pulse oximeters for diagnosis of pneumonia symptoms by community health workers and…
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completedIntegrated Community Case Management
The aim of the project is to improve child survival in children under five years by increasing access to prompt and effective treatment of common childhood illnesses including malaria, pneumonia and…
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completedCommunicable Diseases: Health Service Delivery (COMDIS-HSD)
COMDIS-HSD is a Research Programme Consortium (RPC) funded by the UK government. The purpose of the consortium is to improve delivery of basic health services, particularly for communicable diseases.…
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completedinSCALE (Innovations at Scale for community access and lasting effects)
The inSCALE project - Innovations at Scale for Community Access and Lasting Effects - funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, increased the coverage of integrated community case management…
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Integrated community case management of fever in children under five using rapid diagnostic tests and respiratory rate counting: A multi-country cluster randomized trial
This effectiveness trial, conducted in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda, compared a diagnostic and treatment package for malaria and pneumonia with presumptive treatment with antimalarial drugs.
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Getting rational about pneumonia
"Whilst it is the responsibility of individuals to ensure that drugs are used rationally, the consequences of irrational use are global," says Kirstie Graham. Photograph: Malaria Consortium Malaria…
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Minimising the development of antibiotic resistance
Increasing access to treatment goes hand-in-hand with efforts to prevent antibiotic resistance In its recent report, the World Health Organization (WHO) called the spread of antibiotic-resistant…
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Antibiotic resistance: a ticking time bomb for public health?
With the spread of resistance to antibiotics, bacterial diseases are increasingly difficult to control and treat. Understanding resistance and identifying ways to control it are public health…
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Resources: Project brief :
Rapid Access Expansion 2015 (RAcE 2015)
This brief descirbes the project RAcE 2015 which aims to improve access to and the quality of community-level management of childhood malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea in Niger state, Nigeria,…
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iCCM guidelines and implementation framework
This brief describes a project to support the development of a decision tree for use by the Nigerian government and implementation partners in the roll-out of integrated community case management for…
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Resources: Presentation :
Community Case Management of Pneumonia in Zambia: Factors Which Determine Rational Use of Antibiotics
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Resources: Project brief :
A study of community management of pneumonia in Zambia
This project aims to provide evidence on the rational use of antibiotics at the community health worker and caregiver levels. It also intends to give an indication of the extent to which integrated…
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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 :
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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Clover Project
This is a project brief detailing Malaria Consortium's Clover programme, which aimed to reduce the burden of malaria among the poor and increase access to and quality of communicable disease…