188 items related to 'Quality improvement'
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Resources: Journal article :
Community understanding of the concept of pre-referral treatment and how this impacts on referral related decision-making following the provision of rectal artesunate: A qualitative study in western Uganda
Background Successful pre-referral treatment with rectal artesunate (RA) for suspected severe malaria requires operational linkages between community health workers (CHWs) and referral facilities,…
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Videos :
iCCM - Filling Health Care Gaps
Integrated community case management, or iCCM, forms an integral part of community based primary health care in less developed countries. It helps bridge the gap between the marginalised and the…
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Resources: Project brief :
upSCALE: Strengthening of the mobile health platform to improve quality and coverage of community-based maternal and child health care and disease surveillance in Mozambique
The project aims to refine and expand a mobile health system for Mozambique's national community health worker programme to improve the quality and coverage of community-based health services and…
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Resources: Case study :
Strengthening regional referral hospitals to provide evidenceâ€based technical support to district health services
USAID’s Malaria Action for Districts project has been working with the Ministry of Health in Uganda to strengthen the capacity of regional referral hospitals, improve the quality of their services…
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Resources: Presentation :
upSCALE: A digital health system strengthening approach for improved quality of care at community level and for passive case reporting for malaria surveillance
To improve the quality of care community health workers (CHWs) in Mozambique provide, Malaria Consortium developed the upSCALE platform in 2013, together with the Ministry of Health and Unicef. The…
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Resources: Poster :
Co-implementation of malaria, neglected tropical diseases, and water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in schools in Nigeria
In 2013, Nigeria’s Ministry of Health launched a National Malaria Strategic Plan and a National NTD Master Plan to achieve pre-elimination of NTDs by 2020. While much progress has been made since,…
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Resources: Poster :
Assessing the usability of a national guideline on malaria-lymphatic filariasis co-implementation in Nigeria
This presentation argues that the roles and responsibilities of team members need to be delineated more clearly to improve the malaria-lymphatic filariasis co-implementation in Nigeria. It was…
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Resources: Project brief :
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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Videos :
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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Resources: Project brief :
Identifying drivers of antibiotic resistance and developing a ‘One Health’ approach for rational use of antibiotics in humans and animals in Cambodia
This project aims to reduce the inappropriate use of antibiotics in humans and animals, and the spillover to the environment of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in rural Cambodia.
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Resources: Poster :
Effect of a community-based intervention on improving care-seeking behaviour for sick children under five in hard-to-reach communities in Niger state, Nigeria
This poster was presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference 2017. It discusses ways to increase access to diagnosis, treatment and referrals for malaria, pneumonia…
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Resources: Annual review :
Trustees' report and financial statements for the year to 31 March 2017
Malaria Consortium's Trustees present their report and the audited financial statements for the year which ended 31 March 2017.
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Resources: Project brief :
Strengthening primary healthcare for neglected tropical diseases in Ethiopia
This pilot tests materials and processes designed to strengthen health workers' capacity to detect, manage and record neglected tropical diseases at the primary healthcare level in Ethiopia.
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Resources: Case study :
Reaching all children, no matter what
ACCESS-SMC is a three-year UNITAID-funded project, led by Malaria Consortium in partnership with Catholic Relief Services, which is supporting National Malaria Control Programmes to scale up access…
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Resources: Project brief :
upSCALE: A digital health platform for effective health systems
This brochure outlines the upSCALE platform, a digital strategy created to strengthen health systems and community health delivery, currently being implemented in the Mozambique provinces of…
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completedStrengthening an integrated iCCM Pilot implementation
Strengthening an integrated iCCM Pilot implementation in three hard-to-reach townships of Sagaing Region
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Resources: Poster :
Determining the efficacy of larvivorous fish, community engagement and SumiLarv® 2MR on dengue vectors in Cambodia
This poster was presented at the 2016 American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference. It discusses the effectiveness of different dengue vector control methods in Cambodia, based on a…
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Resources: Presentation :
upSCALE: Mobile health system strengthening
The upSCALE project will design and implement a mobile health system in Mozambique, using real-time data collected by community health workers in order to improve the management and delivery of…
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Resources: Newsletter :
World Pneumonia Day to be marked Saturday 12 November
World Pneumonia Day is an opportunity to raise awareness about the world's leading infectious killer of children under the age of five. Malaria Consortium is committed to the reduction of pneumonia…
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Resources: Learning paper :
Implementing mobile health solutions
Malaria Consortium’s inSCALE project has been working to scale up quality integrated community case management programmes to improve child health in Uganda and Mozambique. This learning paper details…