Anthony Chisada, Paul Matsvimbo, Munekayi Padingani, Tsitsi Siwela of Jhpiego,the USAID ZAPIM Project, Harare, Zimbabwe, and the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, Harare, Zimbabwe presented their experiences using death audits at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Their findings follow. Nearly 50% of the Zimbabwean population… Continue reading Malaria Death Audits: A tool to help improve severe malaria case management and prevent malaria related deaths in Mashona East, Zimbabwe
Category: Monitoring
Setting the Stage to Introduce a Groundbreaking Community Approach to Prevent Malaria in Pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Maya Tholandi, Lolade Oseni, Anne McKenna, Herbert Onuoha, Solofo Razakamiadana, Elsa Nhantumbo, Alain Mikato, Elaine Roman of Jhpiego and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shared important Baseline Readiness Assessment Findings from Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Madagascar, and Nigeria from the UNITAID-supported TIPTOP on Intermittent Preventive Treatment of malaria in pregnancy… Continue reading Setting the Stage to Introduce a Groundbreaking Community Approach to Prevent Malaria in Pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Malawi Makes Progress and Plans to Defeat Malaria: Directions from the 2017 Malaria Indicator Survey
Malawi has conducted four Malaria Indicator Surveys (MIS), with the most recent being in 2017. Such surveys are crucial tools for [planning and evaluating efforts by national control programs and their partners. Dr. Dan Namarika, Secretary for Health, Ministry of Health in the preface to the 2017 Report sums up the context and progress best,… Continue reading Malawi Makes Progress and Plans to Defeat Malaria: Directions from the 2017 Malaria Indicator Survey
African Leaders Malaria Alliance Recognizes Country Achievements, Adds NTDs to its Scorecard
The 30th African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia provided an important opportunity to bring the challenges of infectious diseases on the continent to the forefront. Led by the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), two major activities occurred, raising greater awareness and commitment to fighting neglected tropical diseases… Continue reading African Leaders Malaria Alliance Recognizes Country Achievements, Adds NTDs to its Scorecard
The quantitative impact assessment of community health projects in selected African countries by using Lives Saved Tool
Chulwoo (Charles) Park who has been undertaking the Masters of Science in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is sharing herein his experiences with the LiST tool in African countries. The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) is a computer-based tool that estimates the impact of scaled up health intervention packages in… Continue reading The quantitative impact assessment of community health projects in selected African countries by using Lives Saved Tool
Data for Decision Making Series: The Importance of CHW Data Collection
This posting appeared originally on website of 1 Million Community Health Workers. This week marks our final installment in the Data for Decision Making series! For our final interview we talked with Dr. William (Bill) Brieger, Senior Malaria Specialist at Jhpiego and a Professor in the Health Systems Program of the International Health Department at… Continue reading Data for Decision Making Series: The Importance of CHW Data Collection
Equity, Inequities and Malaria
The World Health Organization has just released a new report entitled, State of inequality: Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Because of its effort to look across the board at low and middle income countries generally, it does not include more region specific indicators like malaria services. This led us to look at a few… Continue reading Equity, Inequities and Malaria
Moving toward Malaria Elimination in Botswana
The just concluded 2015 Global Health Conference in Botswana, hosted by Boitekanelo College at Gaborone International Convention Centre on 11-12 June provided us a good opportunity to examine how Botswana is moving toward malaria elimination. Botswana is one of the four front line malaria elimination countries in the Southern African Development Community and offers lessons… Continue reading Moving toward Malaria Elimination in Botswana
Invest in Using Preventive Services: an Update from the 2014-15 Uganda Malaria Information Survey
The Demographic and Health Survey people have just released the preliminary MIS results for Uganda. From the viewpoint to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there are cautiously positive signs. Insecticide treated bednet ownership by households has reached 90%. Equity appears to have been achieved with the households in the lowest, second and third wealth quintiles… Continue reading Invest in Using Preventive Services: an Update from the 2014-15 Uganda Malaria Information Survey
Highlights from Malawi’s 2014 Malaria Information Survey
Two major forms of malaria data collection help inform national malaria control programs and their supporters about progress and help focus continued resources and interventions. Routine national health information tells us about program implementation on a regular basis. National surveys give us a point-in-time picture of coverage. For the latter, Malawi has been fortunate in… Continue reading Highlights from Malawi’s 2014 Malaria Information Survey