172 items related to 'Resistance management'
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Resources: Project brief :
Targeting malaria infection and artemisinin resistance at formal and informal border points on the Cambodia-Laos border
This study will estimate the impact of migrant populations on the spread of malaria and artemisinin resistance in the Greater Mekong Subregion, especially along the Cambodia-Laos border. The project…
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Resources: Journal article :
Novel cross-border approaches to optimise identification of asymptomatic and artemisinin-resistant plasmodium infection in mobile populations crossing Cambodian borders
Background Human population movement across country borders presents a real challenge for malaria control and elimination efforts in Cambodia and its neighbouring countries. To quantifyPlasmodium…
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High prevalence of antibiotic resistance in nasopharyngeal bacterial isolates from healthy children in rural Uganda: A cross-sectional study
Background In Uganda, the main causes of death in children under 5 years of age are malaria and pneumonia-often due to delayed diagnosis and treatment. In preparation for a community case management…
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First Malaria Indicator Survey in Myanmar kicks off in Yangon
Early August saw the start of the first nationwide malaria survey of its kind in Myanmar, where the spread of drug resistance to antimalarial drugs is a growing obstacle to the elimination of the…
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Village malaria worker project: Prevention and control of malaria
This project aims to improve the malaria implementation programme in western Cambodia — a key location for managing resistant malaria parasites — and to strengthen the community health network in 68…
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Resources: Journal article :
Malaria and the mobile and migrant population in Cambodia: A population movement framework to inform strategies for malaria control and elimination
Background The relationships between human population movement (HPM) and health are a concern at global level. In the case of malaria, those links are crucial in relation to the spread of drug…
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completedScaling Up for Universal Coverage and Impact
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Beyond Garki baseline results released, highlighting changes in malaria environment
Over the last 15 years, increased global investment in fighting malaria has contributed substantially to reduction in the prevalence of the disease in endemic countries around the world. With the…
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World Malaria Day 2015: more funds needed at crucial moment in development history
“This World Malaria Day, we call for efforts to rid the world of malaria to be stepped up, focusing first on ending all deaths from malaria. This can be done very effectively with the tools we have…
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The threat of drug resistant malaria
The spread of drug resistant strains of the malaria parasite in the Greater Mekong Subregion of Southeast Asia is a growing global issue, which threatens to undermine the great progress made in…
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Panel call for EU to address the urgent threat of drug resistant malaria
“The issue of drug resistant malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion is an urgent one. We need to see every case as an emergency and to act quickly. Our most effective drugs are under threat and the…
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Malaria Consortium to host debate on EU response to global threat of malaria drug resistance
On the occasion of World Malaria Day 2015 (commemorated annually on 25 April), Malaria Consortium, in partnership with the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, will be…
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Resources: Advocacy report :
Malaria: The last mile
This special report — based on a roundtable event held in partnership with Malaria Consortium — was published in the New Statesman magazine and focuses on the threat of drug resistant malaria in…
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Malaria: the last mile - a special report on drug resistant malaria
The spread of drug resistant malaria threatens to undermine the excellent progress made in recent years to tackle this disease. This is an issue of international importance as if drug resistant…
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Active Case Detection and Treatment project (Cambodia/Thailand)
Malaria Consortium has conducted an active malaria case detection and treatment project in Pailin, Cambodia focused on eliminating the disease in the region. Cambodia has been classified by the World…
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Malaria Elimination (Cambodia/Thailand)
This film describes how Malaria Consortium is working towards the elimination of malaria in Cambodia by 2025 on multiple fronts. It shows how we work to determine how cross-border surveillance can be…
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Scale-up of effective malaria control dramatically reduces deaths
The World Malaria Report 2014 shares the good news, but warns the fight is far from over The World Malaria Report 2014, released today by the World Health Organization, was launched in the UK…
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Malaria Consortium promotes knowledge sharing in its efforts to eliminate malaria
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce that we have shared our research portfolio on the newly launched MESA Track database. Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance (MESA), with whom Malaria…
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Malaria Consortium says every breath counts in its fight against pneumonia
London, 12 November 2014 - On this sixth annual World Pneumonia Day, Malaria Consortium and its partners are organising different events throughout the world to raise awareness on pneumonia, the…
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Resources: Poster :
Understanding malaria prevention and treatment strategies among migrants in Thailand’s border areas
This poster shows the results of a questionnaire survey conducted among migrants attending malaria clinics and border malaria posts in artemisinin resistance areas in September 2013. The survey was…