A new study, developed and implemented by a research team from Malaria Consortium, found that handheld pulse oximeter devices can be used in routine care settings to save lives among children under five in countries with limited a…
A study published in Malaria Journal by a team of researchers from organisations including the University of Michigan, Malaria Consortium, Mozambique’s Ministry of Health and USAID has found that malaria treatment, whether a…
The supply of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) medicines needs to be synchronised to prevent high levels of ACT misuse in Nigeria, a new study has found. Malaria Consortium researchers …
In a new paper published in PLOS Digital Health, researchers highlight how early adoption of digital molecular diagnostics – small electronic tools that analyse samples and give a diagnosis for infectious diseases – co…
Yesterday, the Virtual Microbiology and Infectious Disease Summit 2022 hosted a selection of world-leading health experts in microbiology and infectious disease, presenting on a range of cutting-edge public health topics via live …
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…
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…
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 rapidly adapting its existing digital platform, upSCALE, to better support health workers’ ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. The changes include a dedicated education module, ta…
London, 25 June 2019 – Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce the publication of a research paper on pneumonia diagnostics in the open access eClinical Medicine journal, owned by The Lancet.
The paper is based on researc…
On March 15, 2016, Malaria Consortium hosted a workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to disseminate the preliminary results of our multi-country pneumonia diagnostics research project. The research aims to identify the most accurate a…
Malaria Consortium hosted a dissemination workshop on our pneumonia diagnostics work in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, which seeks to identify the most accurate and user-friendly tools for diagnosing pneumonia symptoms in …
Abuja, 18 February 2016 - “I am inspired by the efforts of SuNMaP and its partners. There is no question that SuNMaP has had a huge impact upon malaria in Nigeria.”
Dr Ngozi Azodoh, Assistant Director - MDGs and Resou…
Abuja, 16 February 2016 - SuNMaP, the Support to National Malaria Programme, has come to an end after eight years of working to improve Nigeria’s health system. Today – on the first of a two-day event in Abuja, Nigeria…
November 12th, New York, 2015 – On World Pneumonia Day, more than 50 innovators and 150 global health leaders assembled at the inaugural Pneumonia Innovations Summit to discuss the next wave of innovations with the po…
In September, Malaria Consortium launched the second phase of its cross-border project in Stung Treng province, Cambodia. This new study will build on the work of a project that ended last year, which investigated the impact of mo…
To mark the launch of a new series of advocacy briefs, the first of which is on the topic of malaria diagnostics, Malaria Consortium’s Senior Public Health Diagnostics Specialist, Elizabeth Streat, discusses why the universa…
This week, Malaria Consortium is presenting at the 64th annual meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) in Philadelphia. Our symposiums and interactive presentations will cover a number of topics rang…
Rochom Wart is one of 65 village malaria workers (VMWs) in Cambodia, who has been trained to also detect the signs and symptoms of pneumonia in children under five years using special new diagnostic tools.
The new devices - pulse…
During August, an evaluation team from the UK Department for International Development (DfID) met with stakeholders and partners in Nigeria as part of its annual programme review of ‘Support to National Malaria Programme in …
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in children under five in both Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. A large number of the children who die from pneumonia do so as a result of inappropriate treatment due to misdia…
Over the last 15 years, increased global investment in fighting malaria has contributed substantially to reduction in the prevalence of the disease in endemic countries around the world. With the development of new technologies an…
World Malaria Day is an international event that brings people together from around the globe to unite in the fight against malaria. Malaria Consortium has offices in Africa and Asia which commemorate April 25th by holding a varie…
Operation Health – Comic Relief’s initiative to refurbish a health facility with support from Malaria Consortium – has had widespread participation from the local community in Iyolwa, eastern Uganda. Check o…
This month marked the completion of the Stop Malaria Project, which had been running across Uganda for six years.
Funded by USAID/President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and led by Johns Hopkins University Center for Communica…
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce that Comic Relief has awarded us a grant to run a new project in midwestern Uganda focusing on reducing deaths from pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria in children under five, as well as…
25 February – With 100 percent of its population at risk of malaria and 15,632 deaths from malaria occurring last year, Uganda faces many challenges. Chief among these are high malaria transmission, key health system challen…
Malaria Consortium’s Pioneer project was a five-year initiative in Uganda that reduced the malaria burden in the country using a variety of effective methods. Take a look at the gallery below to learn more about t…
The World Malaria Report 2014 shares the good news, but warns the fight is far from over
The World Malaria Report 2014, released today by the World Health Organization, was launched in the UK Parliament in the presence of the Duk…
(London) Malaria Consortium welcomes the release of the World Health Organization’s 2014 World Malaria Report today and the encouraging news it delivers on the progress made toward reaching global targets to control and elim…
Malaria Consortium gave a number of presentations at the Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting (JITMM 2014) and the 8th seminar on Food- and Water-borne Parasitic Zoonoses (FBPZ8) in Bangkok from December 2-4.
This year&r…
In early November, Malaria Consortium held a highly successful symposium on access to better diagnostic tools for pneumonia. Held at the annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) meeting in New Orleans, the …
London, 12 November 2014 - On this sixth annual World Pneumonia Day, Malaria Consortium and its partners are organising different events throughout the world to raise awareness on pneumonia, the biggest killer of children under th…
Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia Press Release
Pneumonia prevention and care available for every child is key to defeat world’s #1 infectious killer of childrenOn the sixth annual World Pneumonia Day, the Global…
In the opening keynote speech of the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Bill Gates called upon the international community to drive towards eradicating malaria in this generation, calling…
Malaria Consortium at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in New Orleans, November 3 - 6
Malaria Consortium will be giving a number of presentations at the 63rd annual American Society of Tropical Medici…
Malaria Consortium was well represented at this week’s Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town, which ran from 30 September until 3 October 2014. The conference was attended by 1,700 researchers,…
Three quarters of deaths in children under five are caused by malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia often because access to quality health care is hardest in areas where the need is greatest. Uganda has one of the highest infant mortal…
16 September - Malaria Consortium, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and the National Drug Authority, WHO and other NGOs, has launched a $6.2 million (about £10.1 million) project to create a private sector market f…
The Ugandan Ministry of Health, through funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, is rolling out external quality assurance (EQA) for malaria diagnostics across the country. Quality control reduces the …
Recently, Malaria Consortium hosted a series of meetings in Geneva, bringing together global experts in child health, community case management, and diagnostics. During the meetings, the experts discussed the current global situat…
Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children worldwide. Every year it kills an estimated 1.2 million young children, accounting for approximately 18 percent of all deaths in this age group – more than AIDS, malaria an…
With the support of many health-related journal editors, BioMed Central hosted the inaugural ‘Health Services Research: Evidence-based practice’ conference in London from 1-3 July, bringing together distinguished leade…