MALARIA CONSORTIUM

Health surveillance, case detection and treatment of malaria is critical if Myanmar is to achieve elimination of malaria – however, rural communities in western Myanmar are poorly served by the public health system. A network of volunteers who can ....more

Health surveillance, case detection and treatment of malaria is critical if Myanmar is to achieve elimination of malaria – however, rural communities in western Myanmar are poorly served by the public health system. A network of volunteers who can detect and treat malaria have been trained to fill the gaps. Volunteers have been shown to help improve access to care, but they are not well supported and are not fully utilised. This project will train and support existing volunteers to expand their role to provide care for common childhood illnesses (pneumonia, diarrhoea and malnutrition) as well as detect, treat and report malaria. They will also teach people how to prevent disease and to know when getting medical help is urgent. The project will test whether an expanded role for existing volunteers is a viable way to provide better health care for rural communities, as an evidence-base for potential scale-up.

Uganda has high child and maternal mortality rates. In some parts of Uganda, access to good quality maternal and child health care is poor. Iyolwa Health Centre, in eastern Uganda, was a run-down clinic that was refurbished as part of the ....more

Uganda has high child and maternal mortality rates. In some parts of Uganda, access to good quality maternal and child health care is poor. Iyolwa Health Centre, in eastern Uganda, was a run-down clinic that was refurbished as part of the documentary 'Operation Health for Comic Relief' for Red Nose Day 2015. This project will sustain the gains made during the investment in the physical infrastructure of the clinic, and will ensure that high quality care will be provided, through district leadership. Health workers will be trained to provide better care, and the community will be engaged to hold the service providers to account. The whole community of Iyolwa sub-county will get the health care they need.

Children under 5 in Midwest Uganda are dying shortly after birth or in early childhood from pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhoea often because their illness is not appropriately diagnosed or treated in time. Women face complications in pregnancy or ....more

Children under 5 in Midwest Uganda are dying shortly after birth or in early childhood from pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhoea often because their illness is not appropriately diagnosed or treated in time. Women face complications in pregnancy or childbirth sometimes because they do not go to antenatal care early enough or do not deliver in health facilities. This project will train and support Village Health Teams to provide emergency treatment for the key childhood illnesses at village level, to use rapid diagnosis tests for malaria, to promote healthy maternal newborn and childcare practices at home, and to encourage women to take up antenatal care, skilled birth attendance, and postnatal care. There will be nearly 1.5m beneficiaries.