Malaria Consortium researchers were part of a team assessing Ugandan health facilities’ capacity to provide quality malaria testing, care and treatment and found high malaria testing rates among those suspected to have malar…
Malaria Consortium has today begun the mass distribution of over seven million long-lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) to help reduce the burden of malaria in Nigeria. Two LLIN campaigns will distribute 3.3 million LLINs to …
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) published its World Malaria Report for 2021, assessing global and regional malaria trends over the last year and providing an opportunity to reflect on progress towards global targets.
T…
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce that our seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme has been awarded ‘top charity’ status by GiveWell for the sixth year in a row.
GiveWell, a US-based non-profit …
Malaria Consortium is drawing on its expertise in improving pneumonia case management to develop and operationalise pneumonia control strategies in Chad and Ethiopia. The project will support efforts to reduce the number of deaths…
Ground-breaking research conducted by Malaria Consortium found that low previous malaria exposure seems to be associated with more severe manifestations of COVID-19. The results, published in full in The Lancet Microbe today follo…
Today, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that there is evidence to recommend that the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine should be provided to reduce malaria disease and burden in children living in sub-Saharan Africa. This re…
Malaria Consortium researchers, in collaboration with the National Malaria Control Programme in Mozambique, have undertaken a phased implementation study in Nampula province to understand if seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) …
A seminal paper, published on 25 August in the New England Journal of Medicine, details results from a three-year trial to test the efficacy of the RTS,S/AS01 E malaria vaccine in combi…
Malaria Consortium is supporting Nigeria’s National Malaria Elimination Programme to deliver malaria interventions to help the country reach its goal of reducing the malaria burden to pre-elimination levels by 2025 - equatin…
Malaria Consortium is today celebrating the successful close of the United States Government (USG)-funded Malaria Action Program for Districts (MAPD), having achieved impressive results in improving the health status of the Uganda…
Malaria Consortium is delivering seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) across Borno state in northeast Nigeria to approximately two million children under five who would otherwise not have had access to the intervention due to a …
Frontline health workers who tested five different pulse oximeters to detect blood oxygen saturation in children under five at district hospitals in low resource hospitals, found that handheld oximeters are easy to use and a relia…
In a new perspective paper published in IntechOpen, Malaria Consortium experts outline the importance of surveillance systems that are able to adapt to changing circumstances as a crucial component to achieving resilient and …
Researchers testing a newly developed video-based reference tool to evaluate new automated respiratory rate (RR) diagnostic aids in children under five found that breathing measurements carried out by medical professionals using t…
Malaria Consortium welcomes the recent publication of the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Toolkit by the SMC Alliance. The toolkit outlines a performance framework for SMC implementation …
Analysis of blood samples collected during the first nationwide Myanmar Malaria Indicator Survey using ultra-sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method and serology testing uncovered a low-level national prevalence of asympt…
Scientists from the World Mosquito Programme have published new findings from research into the use of Wolbachia to control the spread of dengue via Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
The research, published recently in the New England Jo…
The results of ground-breaking research conducted by Malaria Consortium show that low previous malaria exposure is associated with more severe symptoms of COVID-19 and adverse outcomes compared with high exposure to malaria. Patie…
Pioneering secondary research by Malaria Consortium published in PLOS ONE explores the immune response and health outcomes of a simultaneous infection with malaria and the Ebola virus. Researchers found that more studies and analy…
Latest Malaria Consortium research published in Global Health: Science and Practice outlines how mobile malaria workers in Cambodia who are culturally embedded and trusted by communities contributed to a substantial increase in th…
Today marks the 15th annual World Malaria Day and provides an opportunity for the global community to reflect not only on the progress that’s been made but what more needs to be done – setting out where we need to focu…
A new case study from north-eastern Cambodia, published by Malaria Consortium in Malaria Journal, has underlined the need for tailored active case detection approaches in forest border areas in order to further plasmodium falcipar…
Malaria Consortium is drawing on its extensive experience delivering seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) in the Sahel region of Africa, and its expertise in designing and implementing cutting edge research, to establish if SMC …
Recent findings published by Malaria Consortium highlight the importance of understanding community health worker knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19 and how this insight can be used, in particular through digital …
Malaria Consortium is pleased to join Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to further expand seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) in five …
The latest Malaria Consortium webinar took place this week focusing on the rising global threat of mosquito-borne arboviruses.
The webinar, moderated by Malaria Consortium’s Senior Vector Control Specialist Dr Leo Braack, i…
Malaria Consortium is delighted to have been awarded Independent Research Organisation (IRO) status, making it one of only two international non-governmental organisations to hold this status in the UK. The IRO status recognises t…
The Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) recently announced Malaria Consortium’s re-appointment as the host organisation for its Vector Control Working Group (VCWG), a key contributor towards achieving malaria el…
Malaria Consortium is delighted to receive continued support from Good Ventures, through Open Philanthropy, for its seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme. This support means Malaria Consortium is able to continue to con…
Malaria Consortium is proud to continue its partnership with the University of Pretoria, South Africa, to continue the Dr Sylvia Meek scholarship for Entomology.
The scholarship for Entomology has been set up in the m…