“Getting good data on malaria is essential. Like a puzzle, each piece fits together to help experts understand trends such as how many people are getting sick and how many have died.” - WHO
This year the World Health …
From 2012 to 2016 in Mozambique, Malaria Consortium developed and tested a mobile-phone based application to increase community health workers’ capacity to manage clinical cases better. The app reinforces their connection to…
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…
London, 25 April 2016 – “Significant progress in malaria control and elimination has been made between 2000 and now, with malaria mortality rates falling by 60 percent and over 6.2 million lives saved since 2000. This …
Bangkok, 9 March 2016 – “Every day we see evidence of the impact of infectious diseases, not only on our health systems, but on our economy and most importantly the everyday life of our people.”
Dr. Amnuay Gajee…
Yangon, Myanmar - “Scaling up insecticide-treated clothing and targeting migrant and mobile populations in Myanmar is crucial. Treated clothing partly fills a gap in personal protection of vulnerable populations who are expo…
Last month, Malaria Consortium – in partnership with the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/President’s Malaria Initiative …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…