214 items related to 'Treatment'
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Videos :
Disease Control: Malaria and NTDs - Malaria Consortium at 10
In February 2014, Malaria Consortium hosted a 10th anniversary symposium to celebrate a decade helping to manage communicable diseases and improve child health among the most vulnerable and…
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Videos :
Developing a suitable algorithm for identifying asymptomatic malaria at border points
2014 Malaria Consortium Progress Symposium, Phnom Penh Cambodia Despite real progress towards malaria elimination in this part of Asia, the Greater Mekong Sub-region continues to face the worrying…
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Resources: Learning paper :
Harmonisation of malaria control in Nigeria
Since 2008, the Support to National Malaria Programme (SuNMaP) project has been strengthening the national effort to control malaria in Nigeria through harmonising efforts by local, national and…
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Resources: Poster :
Supply + demand = access: A profile of assured artemisinin supply system and the ACT Forecasting Consortium
This poster was prepared by the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance for the second Access to Quality Medicines and Other Technologies Task Force Meeting in June 2014 in Manila. The poster discusses…
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The Cambodia Justice Police: Pragmatic approaches can work to clamp down on monotherapies and counterfeit drugs
This poster was prepared by the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance for the second Access to Quality Medicines and Other Technologies Task Force Meeting in June 2014 in Manila. It describes…
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Rational use of antibiotics by community health workers and caregivers in Zambia
This poster provides evidence on the rational use of antibiotics to treat pneumonia, with the aim to inform future implementation of integrated community case management and safeguard the…
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Resources: Journal article :
Supervising community health workers in low-income countries: A review of impact and implementation issues
Findings of this review suggest that high-quality supervision that focuses on supportive approaches, community monitoring, and/or quality assurance/problem -solving may be most effective for policy…
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Resources: Poster :
Positive Deviance: An innovative approach to improve malaria prevention and treatment practices among mobile and migrant workers in Cambodia
Reaching mobile and migrant populations is one of the key strategies in the containment and elimination of artemisinin resistance in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Positive Deviance (PD) is an…
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Resources: Project brief :
Improving severe malaria outcomes
This project brief describes a UNITAID-funded project that aims to reduce severe malaria case fatality rates through improved access to and use of injectable artesunate for the treatment of severe…
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Resources: Project brief :
A study of community management of pneumonia in Zambia
This project aims to provide evidence on the rational use of antibiotics at the community health worker and caregiver levels. It also intends to give an indication of the extent to which integrated…
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Resources: Journal article :
Mortality after fluid bolus in African children with severe infection
Abstract The role of fluid resuscitation in the treatment of children with shock and life threatening infections who live in resource-limited settings is not established. Thus, the study randomly…
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Resources: Journal article :
Integrated surveys of neglected tropical diseases in southern Sudan: How much do they cost and can they be refined?
Abstract Control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is suggested to be more cost-effective when drugs are co-administered through a single integrated delivery system rather than separate systems.…
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How to (or not to) integrate vertical programmes for the control of major neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa
Abstract Combining the delivery of multiple health interventions has the potential to minimize costs and expand intervention coverage. Integration of mass drug administration is therefore being…
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Resources: Project brief :
ProMPT Ghana
This is a project brief summarising Malaria Consortium's Promoting Malaria Prevention and Treatment project in Ghana, which aimed to strengthen the capacity, effectiveness and reach of Ghana’s…