malaria


  • New Project Awarded to IntraHealth-led Team in Senegal

    en français In September, the United States Agency for International Development in Senegal awarded IntraHealth International a five-year, $32 million cooperative agreement to manage the Senegal Health Services Improvement Program focusing on local health providers’ clinical,...

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  • The Future of Malaria Control and the Importance
    of Diagnostics

    Last year, the World Malaria Report brought good news: a drop of 50% or more in the malaria burden in 11 African countries and in 32 of 56 malaria-endemic countries outside of Africa. * Enabling these countries, and others, to provide effective malaria prevention and treatment and move...

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  • Global Health: 11 to Follow in 2011

    As we reflect back on the global health stories that made the news in 2010—and some that didn’t—here are 11 top stories we will be following in 2011. Health worker migration: WHO’s unprecedented stand on recruitment In 2010, we celebrated the World Health...

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  • Global Health: 11 to Follow in 2011

    Open source and mobile technologies: need rigorous review and documentation to scale up As Kate Otto notes in her Huffington Post blog on “ a prediction of global health prosperity for 2011 ,” several technologies have been “created, tested, piloted and evaluated in the...

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  • Global Health: 11 to Follow in 2011

    As we reflect back on the global health stories that made the news in 2010—and some that didn’t—here are 11 top stories we will be following in 2011. Health worker migration: WHO’s unprecedented stand on recruitment In 2010, we celebrated the World Health...

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  • Training Traditional Healers to Fight Malaria in Mali

    Malaria has severe impacts on the children and pregnant women of Mali —in fact, it’s the single greatest cause of mortality among children under five. Since traditional healers are often the first to be consulted to aid the sick, it’s crucial that these healers have the...

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  • Rolling Back Malaria—and Rolling Out Prevention and Treatment

    Malaria infects 500 million people and kills one million every year, with most of its victims children under five. In pregnant women, this disease increases the chance of miscarriage and causes over 10% of maternal deaths each year. While malaria affects people all over the world, 90% of malaria...

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  • IntraHealth and Pfizer's Mobilize Against Malaria Program

    Pfizer's video, Fight Against Malaria—Pfizer's Mobilize Against Malaria Program , includes some of the work that IntraHealth has been doing in the Senegal part of the project .  

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  • Pfizer Global Health Fellow in Senegal

    “I am slowly settling back, but it’s hard!” says Isabelle Bertrand, who recently completed her six-month fellowship with IntraHealth. “I’m missing Senegal very much.” IntraHealth selected Isabelle to work with its team in Senegal on Mobilize against...

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  • IntraHealth Open Initiative Releases Free Mopreme Shakur Remix in Honor of World Malaria Day

    Shakur joins Youssou N’Dour, Nas, Peter Buck of R.E.M. and Duncan Sheik to support open source training for health workers in Africa, including those on the frontlines of the battle against malaria.

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