Globally, Cameroon is among the 15 highest burden malaria countries, with three percent of all global malaria cases and three percent of malaria deaths in 2019; this represents the third highest number of malaria cases in Central …
This ASEAN Dengue Day, Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce the publication of a timely opinion paper on the world’s fastest growing vectorborne disease.
Dengue is on the rise, rapidly and widely across the planet, a…
Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce the publication of an opinion paper on a key threat to global health – antimicrobial resistance.
The paper, Antimicrobial resistance: A growing threat to global health, highlights…
London, 1 July 2019 – Malaria Consortium premiered its new film last week on tackling antimicrobial resistance in Bangladesh.
The film focuses on the use of the Community Dialogue Approach in order to engage rural communiti…
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 is one of the most significant health threats in Ethiopia where, in spite of available preventive measures, many people remain unsure of the ways to protect themselves from the threat of this disease. Thanks to Malaria Con…
During a recent visit to the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR), Ethiopia, Malaria Consortium teams visited the Meja Primary School to hear how our awareness raising project has improved both health seeki…
Malaria Consortium has recently published a paper in Malaria Journal which describes our experiences carrying out an innovative approach to malaria control in Cambodia. Originally used to improve nutrition outcomes in the 1970s, &…
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of 17 infectious diseases that can be devastating to those they affect – mainly people in poor and remote communities with limited access to healthcare. Many NTDs can be managed…
Malaria Consortium is attending the first International Summit on Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) from February 8-10 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The conference will bring together leading experts of the SBCC approac…
COMDIS-HSD, a Research Programme Consortium (RPC), which conducts operational research to improve health service delivery for underserved populations, released its annual review today. The review highlights the RPC’s achieve…
October 2015 - Pailin Province in Cambodia has been experiencing a signficant increase in dengue cases, with confirmed outbreaks in six villages. According to a national report in July and August 2015, there have already been…
Myanmar, 1 October - Almost 50 local community volunteers gathered in Hinthada district, in the Ayeyarwady Region, to attend a two-day refresher training on dengue prevention and control organised by Malaria Consortium as part of …
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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
The success of health interventions hinges on the involvement of affected communities. One method of encouraging engagement is through community dialogues, which gather villagers to discuss and find local solutions to health chall…