63 Blog items related to 'SMC'
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SMC: From adapting to COVID-19 to looking to the future at the ASTMH Annual Meeting 2021
As the global health community comes together virtually for this year’s American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting, it represents a key moment of reflection for Malaria…
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Malaria Policy Advisory Group recommendation on rethinking malaria
The Malaria Policy Advisory Group (MPAG) is an independent body that provides policy advice to the World Health Organization (WHO) on matters relating to malaria control and elimination. MPAG met…
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Overcoming hesitancy to health initiatives: SMC success story
In 2020, Malaria Consortium began a phased implementation study to assess the feasibility, acceptability and protective effect of SMC in Nampula province, in the north of Mozambique. Working in…
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Community engagement crucial to success of SMC campaign in Mozambique
In 2020, Malaria Consortium began a phased implementation study to assess the feasibility, acceptability and protective effect of SMC in Nampula province, in the north of Mozambique. Working in…
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Monoclonal antibodies: A breakthrough in the fight against malaria?
According to the 2020 World Malaria Report, in 2019 there were 229 million malaria infections and malaria claimed the lives of 409,000 people, 67 percent of those who died were children under the age…
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Photo story: SMC beyond the Sahel: Protecting children from malaria in Uganda
Malaria Consortium is supporting Uganda’s National Malaria Control Division (NMCD) to implement a pilot project assessing the feasibility, acceptability and impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention…
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Our research strategy for seasonal malaria chemoprevention
Malaria Consortium is launching a new seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) research strategy. As a leading implementer of SMC, we strive to use research evidence to improve programme performance…
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Data and surveillance for malaria in Nigeria: Q&A with Oluwatosin Ajibade
Strengthening surveillance and improving the sharing of disease-related intelligence helps empower decision-makers to make informed and timely choices around interventions. This issue has been…
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Malaria Consortium and COVID-19: Prioritising public health
We have lived with the reality of COVID-19 as a global pandemic for over 12 months and it has been a year of intense public health efforts. As Malaria Consortium remains committed to disease burden…
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Seasonal malaria chemoprevention and COVID-19: One year on
2020 was the most difficult year in living memory. Echoing the call of the World Health Organization (WHO), Malaria Consortium supported arguments for malaria programmes to be maintained as essential…
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Our top blogs of 2020
In a challenging year for our operations across Africa and Asia, we have looked to communicate the breadth of Malaria Consortium’s work on our blog, including the ways we've adapted our programmes in…
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Looking to 2021 - the scope for SMC in the future
Progress towards fewer malaria cases and deaths has plateaued in recent years and achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of malaria elimination by 2030 looks increasingly challenging in…
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Strong partnerships make for successful programmes
In conversation with Nigeria’s National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) We spoke with Dr Audu Bala Mohammed, National Coordinator of Nigeria’s NMEP and his team to hear how the partnership with…
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Adapting seasonal malaria chemoprevention during a pandemic
“We have rung the alarm bell loud and clear” WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the COVID-19 pandemic on 11 March 2020When the WHO declared in early March of this year that…
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How COVID-19 has affected SMC supply chains
During last year's seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaign, we outlined some of the steps that go into getting millions of doses of preventive treatment to millions of children across the…
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Innovating and adapting during COVID-19
By some accounts, we may currently be living through a once-in-a-century pandemic. Whether or not this turns out to be true, the sheer scale of the global response attests to these being…
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Insights from a remote scoping and validation exercise: digitalising seasonal malaria chemoprevention
Malaria Consortium is working with Akros and the Reveal platform to digitalise SMC (Photo credit: Akros) Since 2013, Malaria Consortium has led the distribution of seasonal malaria chemoprevention…
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Will a vaccine end the fight against malaria?
There were 386,000 malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa in 2018, and projections suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause that number to double — to 769,000 deaths — owing to a lack of access…
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From the field: 'The village health volunteer is a hero'
Edisa Natukunda is a 29-year-old woman with eight biological children, including a set of twins. We visited her home in Rwensenene in western Uganda in the company of her local village health team…
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Keeping SMC beneficiaries and distributors safe during COVID-19
The distribution of drugs for seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is an essential health service for the prevention of malaria. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are working to adapt our plans…