Climate change and antimicrobial resistance will be prominent issues at the seventy-seventh World Health Assembly, taking place from 27 May to 1 June in Geneva.
The World Health Organization Task Team on Climate Change, in partnership with Reaching the Last Mile, has launched a critical review exploring the effects of climate change on malaria and 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), and the potential impact of mitigation and adaptation strategies.
This week, Malaria Consortium’s team in Uganda and Chief Executive, Dr James Tibenderana, engaged in key discussions with Uganda’s Ministry of Health on partnership approaches to accelerate progress towards eliminating malaria in the country.
Malaria Consortium has been honoured for its groundbreaking efforts in malaria prevention, both within Uganda and internationally, at the annual World Malaria Day Scientific Colloquium 2024.
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…
Malaria Consortium is conducting a new research project to carry out ‘rapid assessments’ in East and southern Africa to provide evidence on the suitability of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) as a malaria prevent…
Experts from Malaria Consortium, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and national malaria control/elimination programmes in Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Uganda call for greater partnerships between public, private for-…
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, Uganda celebrated the official launch of its seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme at an event in Moroto, attended by Uganda’s State Minister for Health - General Duties, Anifa Kawooya. In 2023, the governm…
New research from Mozambique and Uganda has shown that effectively trained community health workers (CHWs) can reduce treatment costs for malaria and pneumonia among children under five in rural areas of the countries. The finding…
On 3 June 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued new malaria chemoprevention guidelines. While previous WHO policy recommendations provided specific guidance on how chemoprevention interventions should be implemented, th…
Malaria Consortium today announced a new research study to determine the burden of malaria and long-term complications following SARS-CoV-2 infection. This study follows previous ground-breaking Malaria Consortium research to dete…
Researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Uganda National Malaria Control Division (NMCD) and Malaria Consortium have co-authored an opinion piece on future malaria modelling and policy shifts, w…
To build on and boost gains made in Uganda’s mission to eradicate malaria, Malaria Consortium is implementing a new project – Supporting Uganda’s Malaria Reduction and Elimination Strategy (SUMRES) – over t…
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 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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
Protecting the world's most vulnerable people is crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic. The delivery of life saving health services must not be interrupted however, especially at community level, if we are to avoid an increase in d…
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 …
Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce the publication of a brand new animated film on malaria in pregnancy. The film highlights the dangers of malaria in pregnancy, and what needs to be done to protect pregnant women from th…
A film that showcases Malaria Consortium’s Strengthening Uganda’s Response to Malaria project has been shortlisted for the 2020 Charity Film Awards.
The Charity Film Awards celebrate the effective use of video by the …
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…
A film documenting Malaria Consortium’s iCCM-MaCS project in southern Uganda has been nominated in the Charity Film Awards. It is the latest in a line of Malaria Consortium films to be submitted to the awards, and unde…
We are delighted to announce that Malaria Consortium Uganda has received an award at this year’s African Excellence Awards.
The African Excellence Awards were set up to acknowledge ‘the most outstanding achievements o…
Malaria Consortium technical specialists have contributed to a unique published peer-reviewed article on pneumonia diagnostic tool preferences from both end users and procurers. The existing knowledge base on the views of th…
Two Malaria Consortium technical experts will present on two key aspects of the organisation’s research at the 2017 Malaria: From Innovation to Eradication (MalERA) conference, co-organised by Keystone Symposia and Mal…
Apac district, Uganda - A campaign to distribute 24 million long lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) across Uganda was officially launched in a ceremony held today in the Apac district, in the Northern Region of the coun…
[{dx-module-home_justgiving}] When your child is sick from a fever, vomiting or suffering from dehydration from constant diarrhoea, you need to seek urgent medical help. If you live in a rural area with no transport, you need that…
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…
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…
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…
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Today is Red Nose Day, marking the culmination of Comic ReliefsOperation Healthproject in Uganda. The project, which began nine weeks ago, saw the reconstruction and reno…
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…
Malaria Consortium is delighted to be part of Comic Relief’s main fundraising campaign for Red Nose Day this year - Operation Health, involving a major renovation of a dilapidated rural clinic in Uganda.
International healt…
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…
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce that Agnes Nanyonjo, Research Officer in our Uganda office, has completed her doctoral thesis on 'Delivering health services to children through integrated community case management in Uga…
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…
A universal LLIN campaign to distribute 21 million nets across Uganda reached completion this weekend and was marked at an event in Kampala.
The first distribution of its kind in Uganda, the 16 month campaign represents a signifi…
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 …
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…
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Results from a major clinical trial in East Africa show that the survival rate for children in shock as a result of severe infections is, in fact, lower when the accepted practice of rapid fluid resuscitatio…