Last Updated: 27/02/2024

Develop and implement sustainable IPC strategies for Community Health Workers (CHWs) to maintain essential community-based malaria services

Objectives

The main objective of this project is to build sustainable IPC capacity for community health workers (CHWs) to safely maintain integrated community case management (iCCM) during COVID-19.

Principal Institution

Makerere University, Uganda

Principal Investigators / Focal Persons

Lauren Lewis
Anna Bowen

Rationale and Abstract

In July 2020, CDC’s COVID-19 Response International Task Force approved funding for six malaria-focused projects to mitigate the secondary impact of COVID-19 on malaria control program activities in 4 African counties and Haiti. The overall goal of these projects was to improve our understanding of how to safely deliver malaria control interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Date

Aug 2020 — Jan 2023

Project Site

Uganda

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