59 News items related to 'Pneumonia'
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Pioneers in pneumonia diagnostics: Malaria Consortium experts’ peer-reviewed article published
Malaria Consortium technical specialists have contributed to a unique published peer-reviewed article on pneumonia diagnostic tool preferences from both end users and procurers. The existing…
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Malaria Consortium seals partnership with Myanmar Government
Malaria Consortium has officially signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Public Health and Ministry of Health and Sports Myanmar, paving the way for future collaboration and…
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Help us improve access to healthcare in eastern Uganda
[{dx-module-home_justgiving}] When your child is sick from a fever, vomiting or suffering from dehydration from constant diarrhoea, you need to seek urgent medical help. If you live in a rural area…
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Photo story: bringing healthcare to under-fives in rural Mozambique
Mozambique still faces major challenges in reducing maternal and child morbidity and mortality, despite making significant progress over the past decade. Because so many children live beyond the…
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Health systems strengthening critical to tackle 'seemingly endless' global health emergencies (Politics Home)
This article was originally published on Politics Home. Strong health systems are critical to international efforts to tackle emerging health emergencies, such as Ebola and Zika. Global health…
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Pneumonia Diagnostics Project shares results at dissemination meetings in Cambodia
On March 15, 2016, Malaria Consortium hosted a workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to disseminate the preliminary results of our multi-country pneumonia diagnostics research project. The research aims…
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Linking nutrition to the treatment of children with malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea
In South Sudan, Malaria Consortium saves lives by preventing and treating malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea and undernutrition The approach Since 2009, Malaria Consortium has been implementing a…
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Pneumonia diagnostics dissemination workshop held in Ethiopia
Malaria Consortium hosted a dissemination workshop on our pneumonia diagnostics work in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, which seeks to identify the most accurate and user-friendly tools for…
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Health for all: putting the last mile first
Universal health coverage (UHC) means that every person, everywhere, has access to quality health services without suffering financial hardship. As we celebrate universal health coverage day and…
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VIDEO: Filling the gap with community health workers (Politics Home)
This article was originally published on Politics home. What is the role of policy makers in filling the global healthcare shortage? There is a global shortage of 7.2 million health workers…
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Malaria Consortium presents at the 2015 Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting
Malaria Consortium staff are presenting at the Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting 2015 (JITMM 2015) from December 2-4. The annual conference, held in Bangkok, Thailand, brings together…
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World Pneumonia Day - resources and news roundup
Malaria Consortium produced a range of outputs and news for World Pneumonia Day 2015. Please see below for a list of our activities: News World's first pneumonia innovations summit unveils next…
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World's first pneumonia innovations summit unveils next generation prevention, diagnostic and treatment innovations
November 12th, New York, 2015 – On World Pneumonia Day, more than 50 innovators and 150 global health leaders assembled at the inaugural Pneumonia Innovations Summit to discuss the next wave of…
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Presenting our pneumonia diagnostics work at the annual ASTMH meeting
Our pneumonia diagnostics team held a number of interesting sessions at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) in Philadelphia from 25-29 October, 2015. These sessions…
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Malaria Consortium presents at the 2015 ASTMH Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
This week, Malaria Consortium is presenting at the 64th annual meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) in Philadelphia. Our symposiums and interactive presentations…
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Helping Reduce Child Pneumonia Deaths in Cambodian Rural Communities
Rochom Wart is one of 65 village malaria workers (VMWs) in Cambodia, who has been trained to also detect the signs and symptoms of pneumonia in children under five years using special new diagnostic…
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Uganda sees huge scale-up of intervention targeting three main childhood diseases
Sheema, Uganda, 25 August 2015 – Today, the Ugandan President Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni launched a new Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) programme funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,…
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Sharing progress and lessons learnt from the pneumonia diagnostics project in South Sudan
The South Sudan Ministry of Health, in collaboration with UNICEF, held an important technical meeting in Juba from the 23-24 July to discuss integrated management of neonatal and childhood illnesses…
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Sharing progress and lessons learnt from the pneumonia diagnostics project in South Sudan
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in children under five in both Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. A large number of the children who die from pneumonia do so as a result of…
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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.…