This series of 12 malaria in pregnancy (MiP) country profiles illuminates the current status of MiP programming in US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) countries with a focus on the progress achieved in ensuring intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) coverage among pregnant women. The profiles explore progress toward attaining targets, updates to countries’ […]
From the global to the country level, MCSP via leadership in the Roll Back Malaria Partnership’s Malaria in Pregnancy Working Group has worked alongside country and global partners to help women avoid the dangerous effects of malaria in pregnancy. […]
In Mozambique, MCSP is training providers to competently handle their malaria patients’ care, no matter the complexity of the cases. […]
In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) published Recommendations on Antenatal Care for a Positive Pregnancy Experience (WHO 2016), which outlines a new set of evidence-based global guidelines on recommended content and scheduling for antenatal care (ANC). These recommendations are the first set of ANC guidelines created under WHO’s current approved process for development of […]
Each year, malaria in pregnancy (MiP) is responsible for 20% of stillbirths and 11% of newborn deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. MCSP is committed to providing resources and technical assistance to strengthen MIP programs to deliver health impact. In 2016, WHO released Recommendations on Antenatal Care for a Positive Pregnancy Experience. These ANC recommendations should be […]
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In Kenya, failure to complete immunization schedules by children who previously accessed immunization services is an obstacle to ensuring that children are fully immunized. Home visit approaches used to track defaulting children have not been successful in reducing the drop-out rate. This study tested the use of phone contacts as an approach for tracking immunization defaulters in […]
To promote better understanding of and adherence to the 2012 WHO IPTp-SP recommendations, MCSP developed the Toolkit to Improve Early and Sustained IPTp Uptake. The Toolkit was developed by MCSP’s Maternal Health and Malaria teams, in collaboration with the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). It consists of a job aid (poster); a technical summary; a PowerPoint […]
To promote better understanding of and adherence to the 2012 WHO IPTp-SP recommendations, MCSP developed the Toolkit to Improve Early and Sustained IPTp Uptake. The Toolkit was developed by MCSP’s Maternal Health and Malaria teams, in collaboration with the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). It consists of a job aid (poster); a technical summary; a PowerPoint […]
In Zambezia province, which has the highest prevalence of malaria in children under 5, MCSP is training health staff to use improved diagnostic tests and administer injectable malaria treatment. […]
