Global Malaria Technical & Training Support Package, Phase 3 (Projects)
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global malaria control and elimination by shaping global and national malaria control and elimination policies, and ultimately to reduce the malaria burden and to increase the number of malaria-free zones [...] and national malaria strategies. Background Thanks to the scale-up of effective malaria vector control tools such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets, diagnostics and medicines, malaria mortality has [...] Back Malaria action plan, aligned with the 2016-2030 timeline of the Sustainable...
Country modelling to support National Malaria Control Programs - High Burden to High Impact (Projects)
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the Roll Back Malaria partnership (RBM), public health modelers have been invited by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (“the Global Fund”) to support the national malaria programs on [...] of their data basis, current/past malaria trends in the country, and a simulation of the impact of malaria-related interventions. Our work is based on the OpenMalaria modelling platform developed by the [...] elaboration of country malaria strategic plans and provide insight to the coming...
Malawi Malaria Indicator Survey Quality Assurance Services (Projects)
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Malaria indicator surveys are an important source of data on disease burden (parasite prevalence, fever prevalence, etc), and coverage of malaria prevention and case management interventions, particularly [...] decisions. The objective of this mandate of Global Fund was to assess the extent to which the Malawi malaria indicator survey 2021 activities were planned, coordinated, and executed according to the standard
Spatio-temporal modelling to assess the impact of climate change on the burden of malaria and to support early warning systems (Projects)
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climate variability, land use, malaria vector control coverage and socio-economic factors to changes in malaria incidence and mortality; (ii) develop stochastic metapopulation malaria transmission models which [...] statistical models to forecast malaria; (iv) evaluate the effects of environmental vector-control with microbial larvicides on the burden of malaria; and (v) project future malaria burden based on scenarios [...] changes, malaria interventions and socioeconomic effects, which are...
BACKUP Health Cameroon - Improving Access to Malaria Care and Services for Children Under Five: Pilot Project (Projects)
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approximately $101 million will go to malaria treatment and control programs. These funds are expected to be absorbed through the end of 2023. The National Malaria Control Program (PNLP) is working towards [...] groups of activities: Estimation of the costs of malaria treatment services and care: The aim is to propose three cost models for the management of all malaria care: "basic", "standard" and "comprehensive" [...] goal is to customize openIMIS to meet the needs of malaria care management....
Experience capitalisation of Biovision’s environmental-friendly Malaria and African animal trypanosomiasis control projects from 2005-2020 for greater... (Projects)
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be an assessment of Biovision’s engagement in Malaria and AAT control. Two major outputs shall be developed based on this review: a) an overview of Malaria and tsetse fly control activities supported through [...] of vector-borne human, animal and plant diseases. The current mandate focuses on programmes for Malaria and AAT control with a flagship character that had been implemented by Biovision and their strong [...] These will address the following four key topics: a) uptake, ownership and...
Combining sociological, economic and epidemiological evidence to target malaria interventions in Papua New Guinea and beyond (Projects)
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interventions. However, current recommendations focus exclusively on stratification by malaria risk. Yet, malaria is multi-factorial and the impact of interventions in a given setting also depends on [...] conceptual framework for a multi-dimensional malaria stratification beyond mere epidemiological indicators. Papua New Guinea (PNG) with its complex malaria epidemiology serves as a model country. Project [...] To improve the (cost-) effectiveness of malaria control and accelerate progress...
Provision of a Scoping Study for a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) on behalf of Target Malaria (Projects)
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Genetically modified mosquitoes represent great potential for malaria control. Any future application of gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control will require many elements, including policy action, [...] to suppress populations of malaria vector mosquitoes. The assessments main objectives are to: (i) raise awareness amongst policy makers of genetic control tools for malaria using gene drives (ii) develop [...] gene drive (the action) and subsequent reduction of malaria (the desired effect)...
Feasibility and acceptability of a strategy deploying multiple first-line artemisinin-based combination therapies for uncomplicated malaria in the... (Publications)
(1) Background: Effective malaria case management relies on World Health Organization (WHO) recommended artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), but partial resistance to artemisinin has emerged [...] emerged and is spreading, threatening malaria control and elimination efforts. The strategy of deploying multiple first-line therapies (MFT) may help mitigate this threat and extend the therapeutic life of current [...] conducted, deploying three different ACTs at the public health facility...
Improving coverage of antenatal iron and folic acid supplementation and malaria prophylaxis through targeted information and home deliveries in Côte... (Publications)
09, p=0.235) for INFO+DELIV. While INFO had no effect on malaria parasitaemia (aPR=0.95, 95% CI 0.39 to 2.31, p=0.915), INFO+DELIV reduced malaria parasitaemia by 83% (aPR=0.17, 95% CI 0.04 to 0.75, p=0 [...] INTRODUCTION: Coverage of antenatal iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation and malaria chemoprophylaxis remains low in many low-income and middle-income settings. We assessed the effectiveness of personal [...] intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp), and their...
