40 Blog items related to 'Vector control'
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APMEN’s flagship vector surveillance training connects a global community
Over 2,300 professionals from 111 countries joined APMEN's annual vector surveillance training, co-hosted by Malaria Consortium, for three days of practical, expert-led learning.
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Photo story: Beyond the last mile: Protecting Cambodia’s mobile communities from malaria
In rural Cambodia, where communities are often hard to reach and move around for seasonal work, we’re training local volunteers and deploying mobile workers to provide access to life‑saving malaria…
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Photo story: Sharing lessons from Cambodia on the malaria elimination journey
From 17 to 21 March 2024, national malaria programme representatives from 11 African and Middle Eastern countries embarked on an insightful learning exchange to Cambodia, united in their commitment…
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Q&A with our experts: SDG 3 progress on maternal and child health
The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) took place in New York from 8 to 17 July 2024. This annual gathering brought together world leaders, policymakers and stakeholders to…
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Thought leadership :
How can we achieve a malaria-free world?
This blog was written collaboratively by Shana Warren, Associate Director of Path-to-Scale Research & Research Scientist at Innovations for Poverty Action, a research and policy NGO, and…
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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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Top reads of 2023
In 2023, alongside continuing our work with communities and governments across Africa and Asia to strengthen health systems, improve access to health services and find solutions to improve health and…
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How can we leverage social and behaviour change to make malaria history?
As the team from Malaria Consortium interacted with over 130 delegates at the 2023 RBM Partnership to End Malaria Social and Behaviour Change Working Group meeting in Abidjan under the topic…
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Photo story: Universal net coverage is saving lives in South Sudan
Adut is a mother of four children (soon to be five) from South Sudan. Every year, her local community suffers the effects of malaria, with lives lost to this preventable and treatable disease.
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Investing in research: Moving the dial for effective, equitable healthcare
Globally, countries in Africa and Asia face the world's highest mortality rates attributable to diseases including malaria, dengue and pneumonia. Research plays a critical role in improving health…
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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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International Day of the Girl: Community-led approach to improving access to sexual health and family planning services in South Sudan
Adut is 18 years old, and a student living in Naivasha. She has been helping to inform young people within her school and community about accessing sexual health services and spreading awareness of…
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The impact of Global Fund investment in fighting malaria
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) is a critical financing mechanism that has invested more than US$55 billion over the last 20 years to fund health programmes in…
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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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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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Third International Malaria Vector Surveillance for Elimination course in India
Countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) have achieved significant levels of malaria reduction, but many still face the challenge of residual malaria. With the emerging threat of…
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Q&A :
Interview with Dr Leang Rithea - Reducing the burden of dengue in Cambodia
Today marks the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) annual Dengue Day. Despite the alarming rate of increase – dengue is the world’s fastest-growing vector-borne disease with approximately…
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Photo story: Net distribution campaign addresses urgent need in flood-affected areas of Jonglei state, South Sudan
Malaria Consortium conducts high-quality implementation and operational research to provide evidence on country specific as well as globally significant innovative social behaviour change (SBC)…
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Our first year as an Independent Research Organisation
This month marks one year since Malaria Consortium was granted Independent Research Organisation (IRO) status, making us one of only a few international non-governmental organisations to hold this…
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Mitigating the risks of pandemic-weakened supply chains
Supply chains, and the consequences of their breakdown, have been an unusual, and somewhat regular, topic of mainstream news since the emergence of COVID-19. Backlogs of containers at ports, empty…