259 items related to 'Pneumonia'
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Community engagement and mobilisation of local resources to support integrated community case management activities in Niger state, Nigeria
Despite strong evidence that integrated community case management (iCCM) can reduce childhood illness related morbidity and mortality, the sustainability of iCCM projects remains a challenge. From…
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Pneumonia Diagnostics Scientific Advisory Committee meeting report June 2014
This report summarises the discussion at the Scientific Advisory Committee meeting on the evaluation of respiratory rate and pulse oximetry devices for the diagnosis of pneumonia in children at…
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completedBREATHE: Breath REcognition Aid to Health Experts
An assessment of manual video annotation, as a reference standard for determining Respiratory Rate in Children under 5.
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completedStrengthening Uganda's response to malaria
Strengthening Uganda's response to malaria in 16 districts in Northern and Eastern Uganda
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Pneumonia diagnostics: Device selection report
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in children under five, particularly in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Community health workers (CHWs) providing health services in rural and hard…
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Initial pneumonia device short listing exercise
Pneumonia is currently the leading cause of death in children worldwide.
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Technical pneumonia device landscape review
Recent research has highlighted the need to better support community health workers in the diagnosis of pneumonia in low-resource settings. An automated device — rather than manually counting the…
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completedReducing the Malaria Burden
Reducing the Malaria Burden to Pre-Elimination Levels and Bringing Malaria Related Mortality to Zero by 2020 in Nigeria
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Universal versus conditional third day follow-up visit for children with nonsevere unclassified fever at the community level in Ethiopia: Protocol for a cluster randomized noninferiority trial
BackgroundUnder the World Health Organization’s integrated community case management strategy, febrile children seen by community health workers (on day one) without a diagnosable illness and without…
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ARIDA field trial: acceptability study
The Acute Respiratory Infection Diagnostic Aids (ARIDA) project aims to evaluate community health workers’ and facility health workers’ use of respiratory rate counting aids on children under five in…
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Improving mother and child survival through a community-led approach
This film explores the innovative aspects of the Comic Relief-funded iCCM MaCS project and makes the case for scaling it up, both across Uganda and to other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with…
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Our first publications newsletter: Highlights from our recent publications
Malaria Consortium launched the first edition of our publications newsletter with links to our most recent journal articles, papers and briefs. You can sign up to our publications newsletter here.
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Saving lives and transforming communities
This film provides a compelling case for scaling up integrated community case management (iCCM) interventions across Nigeria and in countries in sub-Saharan Africa with similar context. It draws on…
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Catch up: Malaria Consortium at ASTMH 2017
During the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine in Baltimore (USA) in 2017, our experts gave presentations on malaria surveillance, case management, pneumonia diagnostics…
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Malaria Consortium marks World Pneumonia Day 2017
This newsletter offers an overview of Malaria Consortium's activities for World Pneumonia Day 2017, including an online campaign and media coverage.
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Integrated community case management in a peri-urban setting: A qualitative evaluation in Wakiso District, Uganda
Background Integrated community case management (iCCM) strategies aim to reach poor communities by providing timely access to treatment for malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea for children under 5…
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VOX Myanmar: Malaria volunteer on training and treating more illnesses
Malaria Consortium worked with Myanmar's National Malaria Control Programme, Child Health and Nutrition Divisions and Kalay, Pinlebu and Banmauk townships to introduce integrated community case…
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VOX Myanmar: Deputy DMO on malaria volunteers providing more services
Malaria Consortium worked with Myanmar's National Malaria Control Programme, Child Health and Nutrition Divisions and Kalay, Pinlebu and Banmauk townships to introduce integrated community case…
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VOX Myanmar: Health assistant on supervising iCCM trained volunteers
Malaria Consortium worked with Myanmar's National Malaria Control Programme, Child Health and Nutrition Divisions and Kalay, Pinlebu and Banmauk townships to introduce integrated community case…
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Pneumonia is preventable and treatable, but deadly
Malaria Consortium has been one of the leading implementers of community based primary healthcare programmes involving pneumonia diagnostics and treatment for over a decade. This includes the…