733 items related to 'SDGs'
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Resources: Advocacy report :
Dengue: Falling between the cracks
Dengue is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the world, with a huge impact on individuals, households, health systems and national economies. Over half the world’s population is now at…
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Resources: Research brief :
Assessing and addressing barriers to the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy in Uganda
This research brief evaluates the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) in areas of medium or high malaria transmission. IPTp is typically provided as part of the focused…
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Resources: Presentation :
Community health worker rational use of antibiotics in iCCM, rural Zambia
This presentation from the Health Systems Global conference in Vancouver shows how community-based health services, such as integrated community case management (iCCM), can increase access to…
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Resources: Poster :
Performance of selected respiratory rate timers for the detection of symptoms of pneumonia in children at the community level
This poster was presented at the 2016 American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference. It discusses the pneumonia diagnostics, which aimed to identify the most accurate and acceptable…
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Resources: Journal article :
Pneumococcal carriage in children under five years in Uganda: Will present pneumococcal conjugate vaccines be appropriate?
Background Pneumonia is the major cause of death in children globally, with more than 900,000 deaths annually in children under five years of age. Streptococcus pneumoniae causes most deaths, most…
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Resources: Presentation :
Community dialogues for prevention and control of schistosomiasis in Mozambique
This presentation was given at the 2016 American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference. It discusses Malaria Consortium's study that aimed to improve schistosomiasis prevention and…
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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 :
Malaria Consortium at the 65th American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting
Malaria Consortium will be giving a number of presentations during the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting in Atlanta this year. We hope that you will be able to join…
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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: Presentation :
Progress towards universal access to pneumonia treatment
This presentation was given at the 2016 American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference. It analyses how early identification and treatment of pneumonia saves lives, as well as how…
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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…
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Resources: Poster :
Joining the halves: A private-public partnership to make routine health reporting attractive to private sector providers in Uganda
This poster was presented at the 2016 American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference. It discusses a study that aimed to enhance the cooperation of public and private health sectors…
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Resources: Learning paper :
Evaluating pneumonia diagnostic aids
Malaria Consortium’s pneumonia diagnostics project aimed to identify the most accurate, acceptable, scalable and user-friendly respiratory rate timers and pulse oximeters to help community health…
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Resources: Journal article :
Health worker perspectives on the possible use of intramuscular artesunate for the treatment of severe malaria at lower-level health facilities in settings with poor access to referral facilities in Nigeria: a qualitative study
Background Innovative strategies are needed to reduce malaria mortality in high burden countries like Nigeria. Given that one of the important reasons for this high malaria mortality is delay in…
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Resources: Journal article :
The use of formative research to inform the design of a seasonal malaria chemoprevention intervention in northern Nigeria
Background Experience of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is growing in the Sahel sub-region of Africa, though there remains insufficient evidence to recommend a standard deployment strategy.…
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Resources: Journal article :
Molecular determinants of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum in Nigeria and the regional emergence of dhps 431V
Background There are few published reports of mutations in dihydropteroate synthetase (dhps) and dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr) genes in P. falciparum populations in Nigeria, but one previous study…
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Resources: Journal article :
An optimised age-based dosing regimen for single low-dose primaquine for blocking malaria transmission in Cambodia
Background In 2012, the World Health Organization recommended the addition of single low-dose primaquine (SLDPQ, 0.25 mg base/kg body weight) to artemisinin combination therapies to block the…
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Resources: Project brief :
Community case management of chest indrawing pneumonia in children
This project aims to determine the safety of community health worker management of chest indrawing pneumonia in African children.
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Resources: Journal article :
Health worker and policy-maker perspectives on use of intramuscular artesunate for pre-referral and definitive treatment of severe malaria at health posts in Ethiopia
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends injectable artesunate given either intravenously or by the intramuscular route for definitive treatment for severe malaria and recommends a…
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Resources: Newsletter :
Saving lives in the Sahel
In the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa, 60 percent of malaria cases occur during the rainy season. Among those most at risk are children under five. Seasonal malaria chemoprevention is a course of…