12 items related to 'Urbanisation'
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activeEffective surveillance for malaria outbreak detection in peri-urban areas of Mozambique
Responding to the surveillance gap revealed by an undetected outbreak of malaria cases in Maputo city, Mozambique in 2025, the project aims to implement interventions to strengthen early detection…
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activeDecision-making in the built environment as a public health intervention for malaria control — BEDMAC
The BEDMAC research project aims to build and validate transdisciplinary, cross-continental knowledge on the connections between climate, health and the built environment that can be linked to the…
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Decision-making in the built environment as a public health intervention for malaria control — BEDMAC
This project is building and validating transdisciplinary, cross-continental knowledge on the connections between climate, health and the built environment that can be linked to the risk of malaria…
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Photo story: Second learning exchange enhances preparedness for emerging and future threats in African countries
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Photo story: Second learning exchange enhances preparedness for emerging and future threats in African countries
Aedes-borne arboviruses — a group of diseases including dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and zika transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes — are among the fastest spreading infections in the world. Since…
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World Malaria Report 2023: Beyond the numbers, new approaches needed to reaccelerate progress
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) published its World Malaria Report for 2023, assessing global and regional malaria trends in 2022 and providing an opportunity to reflect on progress…
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Dengue: is Africa ready to respond?
Dengue is the fastest spreading infectious disease in the world. Around 70 percent of cases are currently found in Asia, but prevalence elsewhere is increasing due to anthropogenic factors including…
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Top reads of 2022
2022 was a busy year at Malaria Consortium! Thanks to our supporters, we were able to work with communities and governments across Africa and Asia to strengthen health systems, improve access to…
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The spectre of rising mosquito-borne urban disease
According to the United Nations, since 2007, more people globally are now living in cities than at any other time in history. In Africa, projections show that by 2030 the urban population will rise…
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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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How mosquitoes adapt to, and are shaped by, human interventions: A niche construction perspective
Leaving our mark Humans have been called the greatest modern ecosystem engineers, regularly constructing, adapting and even destroying habitats to build their homes. Like many organisms, we seek to…
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Lessons from Ouagadougou: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in urban contexts
Since 2013, Malaria Consortium has been a leader in implementing seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) in the Sahel. In Burkina Faso, we have been working with the government and implementing…