ACT Consortium launches free resources for malaria community
On World Malaria Day, ACT Consortium researchers launched five resources to help guide those working in malaria endemic countries.
If you wish to adapt these resources to your intervention and its context, or design your own tools, this overview document explains aspects of our design process for you to consider:
Malaria diagnosis and treatment: a Starter Kit to develop interventions in endemic countries
Starter Kit content:
- Resource 1: Health centre staff trainer and learner manuals (PRIME study, Uganda)
- Resource 2: Health worker training manuals and card game (REACT study, Cameroon)
- Resource 3: Drug shop vendor training manuals and job aids (Uganda study)
- Resource 4: Community Health Worker training and job aids (Uganda study)
- Resource 5: Health worker trainer and trainee manuals and patient leaflet (TACT study, Tanzania)
The multidisciplinary teams developed, piloted, delivered and evaluated training resources in different countries and contexts, including eight randomised trials, to help convey the need for appropriate diagnosis and treatment amongst both health workers and patients.
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The Starter Kit was launched during a World Malaria Day event at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. You can watch the event recording or check individual presentations below:
- Answering key questions on malaria drug delivery: 8 years of research - David Schellenberg, Director, ACT Consortium; Professor of Malaria & International Health at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
- Listening to your audience: qualitative research in malaria interventions - Clare Chandler, Lead Society Scientist, ACT Consortium; Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
- TACT: a trial of interventions to improve the use of malaria RDTs - Hugh Reyburn, Principal Investigator, ACT Consortium study in Tanzania; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
- Improving malaria diagnosis and treatment in the private retail sector in Uganda - Anthony Mbonye, Principal Investigator, ACT Consortium study in Uganda; Ministry of Health, Uganda
- Interventions to change providers' practice in Cameroon - Heidi Hopkins*, Cross-cutting analysis Lead, ACT Consortium; Senior Lecturer in Malaria & Diagnostics at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
*on behalf of REACT Team in Cameroon, led by Wilfred Mbacham and Virginia Wiseman
Further information
- Little attention paid to how health interventions are designed: News story about latest paper from ACT Consortium researchers on lessons learned from eight trials (Health Systems and Reform)
- Follow the discussion online at #ACTdiagnosis and @ACTconsortium
For any questions or comments, or if you wish to receive hard copies of the Starter Kit, please contact debora.miranda@lshtm.ac.uk