Grace Browne

1 week ago | allafrica.com | Grace Browne

In recent years, severe flooding has posed a significant challenge to delivering seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) medicines, threatening access to life-saving malaria prevention for children under five. In 2024, after severe flooding affected SMC campaigns in countries including Chad, Nigeria and South Sudan, Malaria Consortium's operations team updated its protocols and created adaptive principles for SMC delivery in affected areas, based on countries' insights and lessons learnt.

1 week ago | malariaconsortium.org | Grace Browne

In recent years, severe flooding has posed a significant challenge to delivering seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) medicines, threatening access to life-saving malaria prevention for children under five. In 2024, after severe flooding affected SMC campaigns in countries including Chad, Nigeria and South Sudan, Malaria Consortium’s operations team updated its protocols and created adaptive principles for SMC delivery in affected areas, based on countries’ insights and lessons learnt.

2 weeks ago | allafrica.com | Grace Browne

One patient, in particular, has stuck with Saidat Usman. A woman was admitted with severe malaria to Kura General Hospital in Kano state, Nigeria, where Usman works as a nurse. The woman's husband had been frustrated by previous unsuccessful attempts to treat his wife's malaria and demanded she be discharged to receive traditional treatment instead. Usman pleaded with him to allow them to treat his wife, but he refused.

3 weeks ago | malariaconsortium.org | Grace Browne

One patient, in particular, has stuck with Saidat Usman. A woman was admitted with severe malaria to Kura General Hospital in Kano state, Nigeria, where Usman works as a nurse. The woman’s husband had been frustrated by previous unsuccessful attempts to treat his wife’s malaria and demanded she be discharged to receive traditional treatment instead. Usman pleaded with him to allow them to treat his wife, but he refused.

2 months ago | malariaconsortium.org | Grace Browne

This year marks five years since health agencies sounded the alarm that a pandemic was afoot. In marking the anniversary, Malaria Consortium has been reflecting as an organisation on the biggest lessons of this challenging time, from the perspective of a global health organisation dedicated to combating infectious diseases and ensuring the continued delivery of essential services to communities who need them most.