A new study using disease modelling – published last month in the Malaria Journal by a team of researchers from organisations including Northwestern University, Malaria Consortium, the National Malaria Elimination Programme …
A new report has been launched to mark 10 years of the successful implementation of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) in Africa.
The report, entitled ‘From concept to scale – Celebrating 10 years of seasonal mala…
Today in Nigeria, the inauguration and launch of the Nigeria End Malaria Council (NEMC) – a public-private partnership formed to support the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) in achieving its goal of ending malar…
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 ensuring that around 12 million children under five will receive life-saving protection from malaria despite the COVID-19 pandemic as it prepares to deliver its seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programm…
More than 1,000 bicycles are being given out free of charge to Village Health Team (VHT) coordinators in Uganda as part of Malaria Consortium’s Strengthening Uganda’s Response to Malaria (SURMa) project.
The bicycles …
The number of children set to receive seasonal malaria chemoprevention in 2020 will exceed 30 million for the first time, according to the latest figures presented by national malaria programmes at a global planning and review mee…
Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce that our seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme has been awarded ‘top charity’ status by GiveWell for the fourth year in a row.
GiveWell is a US-based non-prof…
London, 30 July 2019 – Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign has begun across three countries in the Sahel region of Africa.
Over the next four months, the campaign will distribute preventive …
Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce that its seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme has been awarded ‘top charity’ status by GiveWell for the third year in a row.
GiveWell is a US-based non-profit organisa…
Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme (SMC) is top-rated by GiveWell for the project’s evidence of effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, transparency and room for additional funding. This evaluat…
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 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 is the lead partner of the Achieving catalytic expansion of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in the Sahel (ACCESS-SMC) project, which supports National Malaria Control Programmes in the Sahel regi…
On 9th June, Malaria Consortium ran a symposium in London entitled Transforming the malaria landscape in the Sahel: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention.
In the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa, the risk of malaria increases w…
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, Nigeria, 12 November 2015 – Following the first ever seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) distribution programme in areas of Katsina state, northern Nigeria, reported malaria cases in children under five dropped by …
Today Malaria Consortium launches its website for the UNITAID funded project, Achieving catalytic expansion of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in the Sahel (ACCESS-SMC), bringing seasonal malaria chemoprevention to children …
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…
New project prepares to provide seasonal malaria protection in Zamfara and Sokoto
(Nigeria) As World Malaria Day 2015 approaches (25th April), a new project in Nigeria prepares for the distribution of preventive malarial treatmen…
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…
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…
ACCESS-SMC, a UNITAID-funded project, led by Malaria Consortium in partnership with Catholic Relief Services, was officially launched at a meeting in Uganda last month. It is supporting National Malaria Control Programmes across t…
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…
Structured discussions known as community dialogues are being used in communities in Mozambique as a way of improving health-seeking behaviours and knowledge surrounding schistosomiasis – one of the most widespread and harmf…
In the Sahel region of Africa, which covers a broad swathe of land south of the Sahara, malaria remains the leading cause of severe illness and death in young children. A high proportion of the malaria infections in this region ta…