733 items related to 'SDGs'
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Resources: Poster :
The community dialogue approach: Lessons learnt from implementation in four countries
How diseases can be prevented, diagnosed and treated is sometimes misunderstood by affected communities, resulting in people getting sick more often and potentially not seeking timely or appropriate…
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Resources: Project brief :
Strengthening Uganda's response to malaria
The Strengthening Uganda’s Response to Malaria (SURMa) project aims to improve access to and uptake of high-quality malaria prevention and control services. Malaria Consortium, in partnership with…
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Resources: Insight brief :
Maternal and newborn care: Saving premature babies in Uganda
As part of the Integrated Community Case Management-Maternal and Child Survival (iCCM-MaCS) project, Malaria Consortium provided formal health facilities in Uganda with incubators and established the…
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Resources: Advocacy brief :
Malaria Consortium and the Sustainable Development Goals
This brochure highlights some of the key ways in which Malaria Consortium is contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals and illustrates the importance of using a multifaceted approach to…
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Resources: Technical brief :
Essential tools for achieving malaria elimination in Myanmar
This brief discusses the effectiveness of Myanmar’s malaria surveillance system in enhancing the management and use of data. It also considers the National Malaria Control Programme's…
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Resources: Journal article :
Improving health worker performance through text messaging: A mixed-methods evaluation of a pilot intervention designed to increase coverage of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in West Nile, Uganda
Poor health worker performance is a well-documented obstacle to quality service provision. Due to the increasingly widespread availability of mobile devices, mobile health (mHealth) has received…
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Resources: Project report :
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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Resources: Technical brief :
Domestic expenditure on health service delivery in low-income settings
To accelerate progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed to develop further their health financing systems. UHC is defined as…
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Resources: Infographic :
Impact: Malaria Consortium and seasonal malaria chemoprevention
Malaria Consortium has been distributing preventive treatments to children under five across the Sahel region to protect them from malaria during the past four rainy seasons. Case-control studies…
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Resources: Journal article :
Quality issues with malaria rapid diagnostic test accessories and buffer packaging: Findings from a five-country private sector project in Africa
Background: Use of antigen-detecting malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) has increased exponentially over the last decade. WHO's Global Malaria Programme, FIND, and other collaborators have…
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Resources: Journal article :
Evaluation of community-based continuous distribution of long lasting insecticide-treated nets in Toamasina II District, Madagascar
Background Continuous distribution of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) is thought to be an effective mechanism to maintain ITN ownership and access between or in the absence of mass campaigns, but…
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Resources: Journal article :
Evaluation of a continuous community-based insecticide-treated nets distribution pilot in Lainya County, South Sudan 2012–2013
Background Continuous distribution of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) has now been accepted as one way of sustaining ITN universal coverage. Community-based channels offer an interesting means of…
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Resources: Journal article :
Spatiotemporal distribution and population at risk of soil-transmitted helminth infections following an eight-year school-based deworming programme in Burundi, 2007-2014.
Background Investigating the effect of successive annual deworming rounds on the spatiotemporal distribution of infection prevalence and numbers at risk for soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) can…
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Resources: Journal article :
Human and Simian Malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion and Challenges for Elimination
In recent years malaria initiatives have increasingly shifted from malaria control to a focus on achieving malaria elimination in the Southeast Asia region. However, this region experiences unique…
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Resources: Journal article :
Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a School Insecticide-Treated Net Distribution Program in Cross River State, Nigeria
Background: In 2013, the World Health Organization recommended distribution through schools, health facilities, community health workers, and mass campaigns to maintain coverage with…
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Resources: Journal article :
Impact of a 15-month multi-channel continuous distribution pilot on ITN ownership and access in Eastern Region, Ghana
Background: Insecticide-treated nets are a key intervention for malaria prevention. While mass distribution can rapidly scale up ITN coverage, multiple channels may be needed to sustain high levels…
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Resources: Journal article :
Private sector malaria RDT initiative in Nigeria: lessons from an end-of-project stakeholder engagement meeting
BackgroundThe malaria rapid diagnosis testing (RDT) landscape is rapidly evolving in health care delivery in Nigeria with many stakeholders playing or having potential for critical roles. A recent…
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Resources: Journal article :
Immediate assessment of performance of medical laboratory scientists following a 10-day malaria microscopy training programme in Nigeria
Background Rapid and precise diagnosis of malaria is an essential element in effective case management and control of malaria. Malaria microscopy is used as the gold standard for malaria…
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Resources: Briefing note :
Using promotional materials for effective social and behaviour change communication
This briefing note discusses the merits and limitations of using information, education and communication materials or free promotional items to create and sustain behaviour change for a positive…
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Resources: Case study :
Village health club creates local solutions
Since 2016, USAID’s Malaria Action Program for Districts (MAPD) has been working with key influencers to reduce the malaria burden in Uganda. One of them is Ernest, a volunteer community health…