214 items related to 'Treatment'
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Resources: Presentation :
upSCALE: Strengthening mobile health to improve disease surveillance and community-based services in Mozambique
The upSCALE digital community health information platform facilitates improved quality of service delivery and, consequently, timely treatment.
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Photo story :
Photo story: Reducing childhood morbidity and mortality caused by common illness in Uganda
In Kole - a district in northern Uganda - village health teams (VHTs) provide essential health services primarily for children under five. Malaria is a leading cause of death across the country, with…
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Community health workers are saving costs of care for the three major childhood illnesses in Mozambique and Uganda
New research from Mozambique and Uganda has shown that effectively trained community health workers (CHWs) can reduce treatment costs for malaria and pneumonia among children under five in rural…
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Blog :
Eliminating malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Around 15 years ago, worrying news from Asia made international headlines. There was evidence that new strains of the malaria parasite were developing resistance to artemisinin-derivatives. Used in…
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Resources: Learning brief :
Using the role model approach to improve malaria prevention and control: Lessons from Ethiopia
To improve understanding of malaria interventions, we implemented the role model approach in selected districts in Ethiopia.
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Inauguration ceremony and launch of the Nigeria End Malaria Council
Today in Nigeria, the inauguration and launch of the Nigeria End Malaria Council (NEMC) – a public-private partnership formed to support the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) in achieving…
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completedOptimising a digitised community health toolkit in Buikwe, Uganda: Improving equitable healthcare access through digital technologies
The Ugandan government has adopted the community health toolkit approach to standardise and govern mHealth interactions within the country. The toolkit is a global public good that aims to digitise…
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Photo story :
Photo story: Eliminating malaria in Cambodia
Cambodia has achieved significant levels of malaria reduction but local, mobile and migrant populations in rural areas still lack access to malaria services. Through the Regional Artemisinin…
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Access to anti-malarials must be synchronised with access to diagnostic tests to avoid malaria medicine misuse in Nigeria
The supply of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) medicines needs to be synchronised to prevent high levels of ACT misuse in Nigeria, a new study has found.…
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Resources: Journal article :
The private sector market for malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Nigeria: Results of the 2018 market survey
Increasing household knowledge of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) may aid increasing demand, while subsidised RDTs may address supply and price issues.
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Resources: Journal article :
The impact of the private sector co-payment mechanism on the private market for ACT in Nigeria
Supply of rapid diagnostic tests and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) medicines needs to be synchronised to prevent high levels of ACT misuse.
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Resources: Journal article :
Digital molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa
The Digital Diagnostics for Africa Network have identified new technologies with the potential to bring the laboratory to the patient, wherever they may be.
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Resources: Journal article :
Surveillance as a core intervention to strengthen malaria control programmes in moderate to high transmission settings
Recent improvements in malaria surveillance have opened the possibility of transforming surveillance into a core intervention.
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completedMalaria among patients admitted with COVID-19: a case series
COVID-19 Case Series Study in Uganda to establish what can be said about any interaction with Malaria
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completedSupport to Boma Health Initiative - Provision of Essential Healthcare Services
To support the transition in South Sudan from separated community interventions and facility-based interventions, to what is now described as the Boma Health Initiative
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completedSupport upSCALE Project Mozambique for cost-share contribution for rollout of upSCALE in Zambesia province
To support the upSCALE project in Mozambique. A smart phone tool that supports CHWs with algorithms to follow protocol in the diagnosis and treatment of malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea, malnutrition,…
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Virtual Microbiology and Infectious Disease Summit 2022 explores malaria diagnostics
Yesterday, the Virtual Microbiology and Infectious Disease Summit 2022 hosted a selection of world-leading health experts in microbiology and infectious disease, presenting on a range of cutting-edge…
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completedSMC Impact
In late 2020, the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) funded Expanding System Capacity and Availability of Malaria Chemoprevention in the Sahel Region (SMC IMPACT) programme provided to…
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Resources: Journal article :
Reactive, self-administered malaria treatment against asymptomatic malaria infection
In the Gambia, this study co-developed and tested a trans-disciplinary approach to reduce prevalence in participating communities.
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Resources: Journal article :
Private healthcare market shaping and changes in inequities in childhood diarrhoea treatment coverage
This study aims to examine inequities in the coverage of effective oral treatments for diarrhoea in under-fives in Nigeria.