According to Zambia’s national Health Management Information System (HMIS), a reported 1,851 Zambians died of malaria in 2016. Many other malaria deaths occur at community level and go unrecorded. Reported malaria cases...
The MAM@Scale project is a scale up of the pilot project which was carried out in Serenje district between July 2017 and July 2018. The main objective of conducting the midline review was to gauge progress to date of the...
We are delighted to announce that the highly successful MAMaZ Against Malaria (MAM) programme is set to reach up to one million more people in 2021. The programme will expand to cover 10 districts in rural Zambia, with the...
On World Malaria Day, we are excited to announce that Transaid is part of a major programme to scale up the highly successful MAMaZ Against Malaria (MAM) pilot project, after securing matched funding from Grand Challenges...
One night in May 2018, 3-year-old Mervis from Kebumba, Serenje District, Zambia, began to show signs of being unwell. She had a high fever and had lost her appetite. By the next morning, the situation had taken a dramatic...
Since July last year, Transaid has been part of the programme MAMaZ Against Malaria (MAM), an innovative approach to beating malaria. This is a collaboration between Medicines for Malaria Ventures (MMV), Transaid,...
When Rabbecca’s toddler fell sick, she immediately suspected it was severe malaria. Drawing on her training as a Community Health Volunteer for MAMaZ Against Malaria (MAM), she called her co-volunteers. Using a rectal...
This mid-term report presents progress from the start of the MAMaZ Against Malaria (MAM) project in July 2017 until January 2018. MAMaZ against Malaria is a one year pilot project, funded by the Geneva-based foundation,...
Transaid and Swiss foundation, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) are joining forces and working in collaboration with the National Malaria Elimination Center (NMEC) of Zambia, to develop innovative approaches to improve...
Malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, or about 3000 children every day. Over one million people die from malaria each year, mostly children under five years of age, with 90 per cent of malaria cases occurring in...
This World Malaria Day, we’re celebrating MAM@Scale, the innovative, community-led programme designed to address the lack of severe malaria case management capabilities and access to treatment options in rural Zambia. This...
Transaid is looking forward to presenting the final results from the MAMaZ Against Malaria at Scale (MAM@Scale) project during our webinar at 13:00 (GMT) on Tuesday 1st February 2022. The MAM@Scale project supported the...