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Parent-To- Child-Transmission of the HIV virus

Monitoring reports revealed that the delivery of the national prevention of Parent-To-Child Transmission (PTCT) services, supported by the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, for pregnant mothers in The Gambia was facing several challenges, not least low uptake of the services. A review was commissioned to identify the causes and improved strategies for uptake. Out of 25,734 women attending Reproductive and Child Health clinics for first antenatal visits, 61.6% completed the full...

Evaluation of Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy

In malaria-endemic areas like The Gambia, malaria during pregnancy causes anaemia and contributes to low birth weight (LBW) which reduces the chances of the infant’s survival and development. The graph and table represent a snapshot of the results and conclusions of an evaluation two years into a pilot project providing Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy (IPTp) in 2 health divisions, run by the Department of State for Health assisted by UNICEF-The Gambia. ...

The Power of Radio: Bolonghadala

Using radio to convey messages is not new. In the UK, as long ago as 1950 there was an agricultural-based radio soap opera and more recently in 1980s/1990s there has been a spate of ‘sit-com’ and drama-based radio programmes to raise awareness of the prevention of HIV/AIDS in many countries in Africa as well as in other parts of the world. However, as far as we know, a radio programme focused exclusively on malaria behaviour change has never been broadcast nor has its impact beeen rigorously...

Media and Malaria

Malaria reporting in the press and on the TV is infrequent in Africa and apart from a report in the International Women’s Media Foundation/African Woman’s Media Centre report, Deadline for Health (2004), there is little insight into this and little to inform what might change it. Focusing on the press, here are a few of the questions that a comparative study in The Gambia and Kenya sought to address: What is the purpose of publishing malaria articles in our newspapers? Why isn’t...

Training on malaria within a Peer Health Education Programme

One of the challenges of malaria control is to translate knowledge about effective interventions such as insecticide treated nets (ITNs) into sustained behavioural change that leads to improvements in health. The way information about health is acquired may influence the extent to which the information is put into practice. Child to child or peer education may be more effective than traditional methods of teaching, because peers may be more influential role models than adults, and it...

Parliamentarians and Malaria

The importance of parliamentarians in mobilising resources and advocating for effective malaria control was the premise of this pilot study. We worked together with the National Malaria Control Programme on behalf of a Reference Group. Extensive research was conducted on parliamentarian's malaria knowledge and needs and a toolkit design. Our partners' involvement through reviews continued as we designed the toolkit. One of the tools are shown here. The toolkit was initially used...

Curriculum Design Workshop

“We are used to designing training programmes in the formal sector.  If we had not attended this course we would have used the same approach.  Now we will do it differently…” Course participant Workshop content components of curriculum development instructional design cycle issues related to learning characteristics of adult learners design of effective assessment ...