214 items related to 'Treatment'
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Resources: Poster :
Determining the capability of family planning workers to deliver malaria case management in communities in Bandarban, Bangladesh
This poster was presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference 2017. It discusses a pilot study implemented to determine if family planning health workers — when…
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Hot or not? Management of unclassified fever in children in sub-Saharan Africa
This poster was presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference 2017. It discusses a study which assessed the safety of conditional versus universal follow-up of…
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Resources: Project brief :
Strengthening primary healthcare for neglected tropical diseases in Ethiopia
This pilot tests materials and processes designed to strengthen health workers' capacity to detect, manage and record neglected tropical diseases at the primary healthcare level in Ethiopia.
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Resources: Newsletter :
Providing Ugandan community health workers with bicycles
Village health team members from 43 communities in Iyolwa, a sub-county in eastern Uganda, received brand new bicycles this month thanks to our recent fundraising campaign. Malaria Consortium…
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Resources: Advocacy report :
Community-based primary healthcare: The key to unlocking health for all
Community-based primary healthcare (CBPHC) delivers a range of health services to hard-to-reach and under-served communities. It can be the mechanism through which universal health coverage can be…
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Resources: Newsletter :
April newsletter
This month marked World Health Worker Week and World Health Day. To commemorate these occasions, we reflected on community health workers and their role in extending healthcare to millions of people…
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completedICCM Myanmar Pilot Extension
ICCM Myanmar Pilot Extension
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completedRAI-ICC2
With the development of antimalarial drug resistance in the Greater Mekong Subregion, it is especially important to monitor cases – even in low-intensity transmission areas – in order to contain, and…
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completedTranslating Research Into Action
In Ethiopia, integrated community case management (iCCM) is a key strategy for the Ministry of Health to address cases of malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea and other illnesses within remote communities…
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Resources: Training materials :
Malaria in the Asia Pacific: An interactive guide for the private sector
This interactive resource provides technical and practical advice on malaria control for the private sector in the Asia-Pacific. It raises understanding of the potential human and financial impact…
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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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completedApplying community dialogues to facilitate community-lead initiatives in Nampula province, Mozambique
Community based identification of patients and home management poses one of the greatest challenges to efforts to support those suffering from lymphatic filariasis. Currently, there is no system in…
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Resources: Case study :
Success stories on improving severe malaria outcomes
Malaria Consortium, in collaboration with Medicine for Malaria Ventures and the Government of Nigeria, implemented the UNITAID-funded Improving Severe Malaria Outcomes project to reduce mortality…
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Resources: Newsletter :
Our new malaria animation
The Sustainable Development Goals aim to reduce malaria cases and deaths by further 90 percent by 2030. To find out more about the progress made and the challenges that remain to defeat one of the…
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completedProgramme Partnership Arrangement (PPA) 2016
Since 2011, we have been engaged in a Programme Partnership Arrangement (PPA) with the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) for £2.67 million per year until March 2016.…
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Resources: Presentation :
Community-based systems for the detection, treatment and reporting of malaria cases in Myanmar: Landscaping exercise with implementing partner organisations
This presentation was given at the Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting 2015 and discusses current village health volunteer management and data reporting procedures across all malaria…
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Resources: Journal article :
Impact of an integrated community case management programme on uptake of appropriate diarrhoea and pneumonia treatments in Uganda: A propensity score matching and equity analysis study
IntroductionFollowing introduction of iCCM, data from cross-sectional household surveys were examined for socioeconomic inequalities in uptake of treatment and use of iCCM among children with a…
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Resources: Poster :
Antimalarial prescription practices for severe malaria cases in health facilities in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Uganda following training of health workers and introduction of injectable artesunate
This poster was presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference 2015 and discusses a project that helped three countries revise their national treatment guidelines,…
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Resources: Poster :
Use of intrarectal and injectable artesunate as treatment for severe malaria at different levels of care during the referral process: A case of three rural districts in western Uganda
This poster was presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference 2015 and discusses the interplay between intrarectal and injectable artesunate when used to treat…
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Resources: Poster :
Feasibility and acceptability of using intramuscular artesunate as definitive treatment for severe malaria at lower-level health facilities in southern Nigeria
This poster was presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference 2015 and discusses the results of a study that explored the feasibility and acceptability of…