Malaria Consortium is delighted to have been named a GiveWell top charity for our seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme for a second year running.
GiveWell is a non-profit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunitie…
The latest World Health Organization’s annual World Malaria Report indicates that, unlike previous years, the number of malaria cases has increased by an estimated five million more cases in 2016 compared to 2015. This shock…
For many marginalised and vulnerable populations, access to quality healthcare remains out of reach, despite overall global health progress. “There are 400 million people worldwide who do not have access,” said…
Malaria Consortium is delighted to be part of a new research project in rural Cambodia led by the University of Leeds to reduce the inappropriate use of antibiotics in humans and animals and the impact this is having on antibiotic…
In this interview, Al Jazeera’s Julie McDonald speaks with Malaria Consortium’s Technical Director James Tibenderana on how seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is an effective method to prevent malaria in children…
Just a few days ahead of World Pneumonia Day on 12 November, Radio Miraya, a radio station owned and operated by the UN Mission in South Sudan interviewed Malaria Consortium acting Country Director, Denis Mubiru. Dr Mubiru talked…
Two films produced by Malaria Consortium have been nominated in the Charity Film Awards.
‘The time to invest is now: fighting malaria in the Sahel’ and ‘Expanding the role of malaria volunteers to tackle childho…
Malaria Consortium will be giving a number of presentations at the 66th Annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in Baltimore.
We hope that you will be able to join us to learn more about our projects and …
A new malaria post, designed to facilitate ongoing efforts to diagnose and treat malaria in hard-to-reach areas, has been established in Preah Vihear, Cambodia - a high transmission risk area along the border with Thailand.
The r…
Malaria Consortium is pleased to be part of a major project, called PMI VectorLink, led by Abt Associates that has been awarded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the U.S. President&rsqu…
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce a two-year extension to the COMDIS-HSD Research Programme Consortium (RPC). This project began in 2011 and has already concluded successful research and interventions in Mozambique, Myanma…
Malaria Consortium is proud to be continuing its partnership with the University of Pretoria, South Africa, to further Dr Sylvia Meek’s legacy through the Dr Sylvia Meek Scholarship for Entomology.
The Scholarship for …
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 launched the campaign earlier this yea…
A new campaign to motivate caregivers to prevent malaria in Ugandan communities was launched today. USAID’s Malaria Action Program for Districts has designed the campaign strategy, which will disseminate malaria prevention m…
Malaria Consortium and Mahidol University set up an entomology scholarship in memory of Dr Sylvia Meek, former Malaria Consortium Technical Director, to honour her outstanding work to help reduce the impact of vector borne disease…
For people living in Ethiopia, where malaria is endemic, long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) are an important tool for preventing malaria. LLINs, like diagnosis and treatment for malaria in public health facilities, are provide…
Malaria Consortium announced the results from its project introducing integrated community case management (iCCM), which includes diagnosis and treatment of malaria, diarrhoea, pneumonia and malnutrition at a dissemination event t…
Community-based primary healthcare has potential for delivering health services to hard-to-reach and under-served communities, and for achieving the Global Goals on health, says a new report published by Malaria Consortium
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Malaria Consortium is proud to announce its partnership with the University of Pretoria, South Africa, to continue Dr Sylvia Meek’s legacy through the Dr Sylvia Meek Scholarship for Entomology.
The Scholarship for Entomolog…
Malaria Consortium is proud to announce its partnership with University of Nigeria, Nsukka, to continue Dr Sylvia Meek’s legacy through the Dr Sylvia Meek Scholarship for Entomology.
The Scholarship for Entomology has been …
The Roll Back Malaria Social and Behaviour Change Working Group (SBCC WG) hosted its fourth annual meeting in Tanzania from the 11th-13th of July. Close to 100 participants from 20 countries gathered this year to discuss trending …
We are delighted to announce that Malaria Consortium Uganda has received an award at this year’s African Excellence Awards.
The African Excellence Awards were set up to acknowledge ‘the most outstanding achievements o…
Background
Malaria Consortium technical experts led the submission of a recently published peer-reviewed article on malaria surveillance strengthening in Cambodia through an upgraded web-based malaria information system (MIS).
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Malaria Consortium is proud to announce its partnership with Mahidol University’s Faculty of Tropical Medicine (FTM) in Bangkok to continue Sylvia Meek’s legacy through the Dr Sylvia Meek FTM Scholarship for Entomology…
Malaria Consortium has successfully completed a mass distribution campaign of over four million long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) across Nampula and Niassa provinces in Mozambique. The nets were distributed almost simul…
Malaria Consortium technical specialists have contributed to a unique published peer-reviewed article on pneumonia diagnostic tool preferences from both end users and procurers. The existing knowledge base on the views of th…
Malaria Consortium welcomes the newly elected Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was elected during the 70th World Health Assembly in Geneva this week. Dr Tedros succeeds Dr…
A joint statement from the leading UK aid organisations* said:
"It's encouraging that three major parties have committed to maintain the UK's spending on international aid. The UK's promise to help the world's poorest people make…
Malaria Consortium has officially signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Public Health and Ministry of Health and Sports Myanmar, paving the way for future collaboration and project implementation.
The ag…
Today marks exactly one year since the tragic loss of Malaria Consortium’s Global Technical Director and co-founder, Dr Sylvia Meek.
Losing Sylvia when she was still such an indomitable intellectual force – one that…
On Tuesday 25 April, Malaria Consortium recognised World Malaria Day. This year featured many engaging and colourful events and ceremonies around the organisation. See a few of our favourite moments here.
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Today marks the 11th annual World Malaria Day and an opportunity to consider the progress made reducing the malaria burden.
It is a well acknowledged fact that malaria reduction represents one of the most successful achievements …
Today, the UK’s leading aid organisations are calling on all major political parties to honour the nation’s legal promise to spend 0.7% of gross national income on aid, and extend the UK’s leadership in promoting…
Under the motto "Leave Malaria Out", Mozambique’s Niassa Province is preparing a large scale long lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) distribution campaign. The campaign will deliver over one million LLINs to over 480,000 famili…
At a joint meeting of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Groups for Malaria and NTDs and Population and Development to mark International Women’s Day, Malaria Consortium gave a presentation on how text messages could help increa…
From May to August 2016 Malaria Consortium conducted an endline survey designed to evaluate the coverage and use of malaria preventive interventions and case management practices among those living in malaria endemic regions in Th…
Malaria Consortium trustee, Professor Sir Brian Greenwood, talks to meta-charity, GiveWell, on the potential resistance of antimalarial drugs currently used for seasonal malaria chemoprevention
The discussion highlights the unce…
Malaria Consortium’s project ‘Implementing integrated vector management for dengue control’ has won the Break Dengue Community Action Prize at the ISNTD Festival in London. The jury selected the project…
In February 2017, Malaria Consortium was invited to the Alliance for Malaria Prevention’s (AMP) annual partners meeting in Geneva to share lessons learnt from a net distribution pilot project in Mozambique. The pilot impleme…
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In recent years we have seen incredible progress in the fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTD), but with the elimination of 10 NTDs on the agenda, we need …
Two Malaria Consortium technical experts will present on two key aspects of the organisation’s research at the 2017 Malaria: From Innovation to Eradication (MalERA) conference, co-organised by Keystone Symposia and Mal…
Apac district, Uganda - A campaign to distribute 24 million long lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) across Uganda was officially launched in a ceremony held today in the Apac district, in the Northern Region of the coun…
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Malaria Consortium’s Global Technical Director Dr James Tibenderana speaks to PoliticsHome about the challenges we face in the fight against infectious diseases.
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Five moments fighting neglected tropical diseases
On 30 January 2012, leaders in global health and development met in London to pledge their support for the World Health Organization’s ambitious plan to control, eradicate o…
Malaria Consortium welcomes today’s announcement of the launch of the End Malaria Council which aims to ensure malaria eradication remains a top global priority.
The Council was convened by Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill …