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Communicable diseases: Key challenges and potential solutions
HEART talks
April 23, 2018

In this HEART Talk Dr. Peter MacPherson provides a brief overview of the challenges and potential solutions regarding tackling communicable diseases in developing countries. This presentation was delivered as part of a professional development training session for DFID health advisers in March 2018. Subject experts from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) presented the… Read more

HIV, K4D, Malaria, neglected tropical diseases, tuberculosis
Health
Malaria: Key challenges and potential solutions
Reading Pack
April 20, 2018

The K4D professional development Reading Packs provide thought-provoking introductions by international experts and highlight the emerging issues and debates within them. They aim to help inform policies that are more resilient to the future. For any enquiries, please contact [email protected] The current malaria burden Great progress has been made in reducing the global burden of malaria… Read more

Health, K4D, Malaria
Role of the private sector in production and distribution of long lasting insecticide treated nets for malaria control
Helpdesk Report
September 5, 2017

This report provides a review of key literature and evidence on the LLINs and private sector. The evidence base for this report is vast and spans more than twenty years of research evidence, policy documents and implementation programme evaluations and data from sub Saharan Africa and Asia. The relevant literature spans academic publications in biological… Read more

Health, Malaria, Private Sector
Health
Achieving the malaria MDG target: reversing the incidence of malaria 2000–2015
Document Library
November 3, 2015

In this joint publication, UNICEF and WHO report that between 2000 and 2015, malaria mortality rates among children under age 5 fell by 65 per cent, saving an estimated 5.9 million lives. The report highlights the remarkable global and regional progress made against malaria, and the main challenges that remain in controlling and eliminating this disease,… Read more

Global health, Malaria, mdg6, Prevention
Health
Ghana malaria prevention programme, Annual Review
Assignment
April 23, 2015

The Health and Education Advice and Resource Team (HEART) was contracted to undertake the first Annual Programme Review (APR) of the DFID-funded Ghana Malaria Prevention, Diagnosis and Data Programme. This review was undertaken between 24 July and 20 August 2014 by a team of two external consultants. The Review Terms of Reference (TOR) posed questions… Read more

Ghana, Malaria
Malaria and Primary Education: A Cross-country Analysis on Repetition and Completion Rates
Document Library
January 3, 2015

This paper explores the link between P. falciparum malaria– most malaria morbidity and mortality is due to the malignant Plasmodium falciparum -and primary education in terms of school performance on the macroeconomic level. Cross-country regression analysis shows that the relationship between school results (measured in terms of repetition and completion rates) and the P. falciparum… Read more

Learning, Malaria, School
Effect of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria on health and education in schoolchildren: a cluster-randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Document Library
December 5, 2014

BACKGROUND: Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in early childhood, yet its consequences for health and education during the school-age years remain poorly understood. We examined the effect of intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) in reducing anaemia and improving classroom attention and educational achievement in semi-immune schoolchildren in an area of high perennial… Read more

Education, keyna, Malaria
Health
Cognitive performance at school entry of children living in malaria-endemic areas of Sri Lanka
Document Library
December 2, 2014

In a cross-sectional study, carried out in January 1997 at the beginning of the school year, the impact of repeated attacks of malarial infection on the cognitive performance of children at school entry in moderate malaria-endemic areas of Sri Lanka was investigated. The cognitive performance of 325 schoolchildren in grade 1 (mostly aged 5-6 years)… Read more

Education, Malaria
Education
Health
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, clinical trial of the impact of malaria prevention on the educational attainment of school children
Document Library
October 20, 2014

A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of nine months duration was carried out to investigate the impact of malaria and its prevention on the educational attainment of school children in a malaria-endemic area in southern Sri Lanka where both Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax infections are prevalent. A total of 587 children attending grades 1-5 in four… Read more

Education, Malaria
Health
Immediate neuropsychological and behavioral benefits of computerized cognitive rehabilitation in Ugandan pediatric cerebral malaria survivors
Document Library
October 16, 2014

Our earlier studies on Ugandan children surviving cerebral malaria showed cognitive deficits mainly in attention and memory. We now present the first study in sub-Saharan Africa to investigate the feasibility and potential benefits of computerized cognitive rehabilitation training on neuropsychological and behavioural functioning of children surviving cerebral malaria. A randomized trial in which 65 children… Read more

Children, ICT, Malaria
Health
Support National Malaria Programme (SUNMAP) Annual Review (2013)
Assignment
July 16, 2014

The UK provides financial support to the SUNMAP programme to support the management, coordination and delivery of malaria control services in six Nigerian States. It subsequently expanded to a further four States covering a total population of around 60 million. The support is through the provision of long and short term technical assistance for systems… Read more

Malaria, Nigeria
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